Titular Metropolitan See of

Amasea

Turkey

Continent: Central and Southwest Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Titular Metropolitan See

Location: Amasya, pr. Elenoponto, Turkey

History

200?: Established as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Amasea (latine) / Amasea (Italiano) / Amasen(us) (Latin) / Amasien(sis) (Latin)
1600?: Suppressed as Titular Metropolitan See of Amasea (latine) / Amasea (Italiano) / Amasen(us) (Latin) / Amasien(sis) (Latin)
1742.02.15: United (as title of Diocese of Pavia)
1819.11.19: Restored as Titular Metropolitan See of Amasea (latine) / Amasea (Italiano) / Amasen(us) (Latin) / Amasien(sis) (Latin)

Titular Archbishop

Titular Archbishop:

vacant

Past Ordinaries

Metropolitan Archbishops of Amasea (Roman Rite)

Saint Archbishop Basil of Amasea
(314? – 322?)

Died:

322? 🩸 (Nicomedia, Turkey)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Amasea (314? – 322?)

Martyr. Archbishop.

Saint Archbishop Athenodorus of Amasea
(? – 275?)

Died:

275?

Metropolitan Archbishop of Amasea (? – 275?)

Archbishop.

Former Titular Bishops

Titular Archbishop: Archbishop James Patrick Carroll (1965.10.15 – 1995.01.14)
Titular Archbishop: Archbishop Gaetano Malchiodi (1960.01.26 – 1965.01.22)
Titular Archbishop: Archbishop Gustavo Testa (later Cardinal) (1934.06.04 – 1959.12.14)
Titular Archbishop: Archbishop Frantisek Kordác (1931.07.21 – 1934.04.26)
Titular Archbishop: Archbishop Bertram Orth (1908.10.01 – 1931.02.10)
Titular Archbishop: Archbishop Paul Rubian (1900.02.24 – 1911.04.16)
Titular Archbishop: Archbishop Giuseppe Macchi (1889.04.09 – 1897.08.19)
Titular Archbishop: Archbishop Silvestre Guevara y Lira (1877.01.09 – 1882.02.20)
Titular Archbishop: Archbishop Jean-Baptiste-François Pompallier, S.M. (1869.04.19 – 1871.12.21)
Titular Archbishop: Archbishop József Krivinai Lonovics (1861.03.29 – 1866.11.27)
Titular Archbishop: Archbishop Jean-Paul-Gaston de Pins (1824.05.03 – 1850.11.30)
Titular Archbishop: Archbishop Giovanni Battista Gamberucci (1725.09.05 – 1738.11.28)
Titular Archbishop: Archbishop Giovanni Crisostomo Battelli (1716.10.05 – 1725.07.30)
Titular Archbishop: Archbishop Fabritius Aurelius de Agostini (1712.10.05 – 1712.12.06)
Titular Archbishop: Archbishop Agostino Cusani (later Cardinal) (1696.04.02 – 1711.10.14)
Titular Archbishop: Archbishop Ferdinando d’Adda (later Cardinal) (1687.03.03 – 1690.02.13)
Titular Archbishop: Archbishop Francesco Marini (1671.01.19 – 1686.04.27)
Titular Archbishop: Archbishop Egidio Colonna, O.S.B. Cas. (later Patriarch) (1643.12.19 – 1671.01.19)
Titular Archbishop: Archbishop Fausto Poli (later Cardinal) (1633.03.14 – 1643.07.13)
Titular Archbishop: Archbishop Giovanni Battista Agucchia (1623.10.23 – 1632.01.01)

as of 2021.09.23