The Latin or Roman Catholic Archbishopric of Larissa is a

titular see A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular metropolitan" (highest rank), "titular archbish ...

of the

Catholic Church The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...

. It was established briefly as a residential

episcopal see An episcopal see is, in a practical use of the phrase, the area of a bishop's ecclesiastical jurisdiction. Phrases concerning actions occurring within or outside an episcopal see are indicative of the geographical significance of the term, mak ...

Larissa Larissa (; el, Λάρισα, , ) is the capital and largest city of the Thessaly region in Greece. It is the fifth-most populous city in Greece with a population of 144,651 according to the 2011 census. It is also capital of the Larissa regiona ...

Thessaly Thessaly ( el, Θεσσαλία, translit=Thessalía, ; ancient Thessalian: , ) is a traditional geographic and modern administrative region of Greece, comprising most of the ancient region of the same name. Before the Greek Dark Ages, Thes ...

, during the first decades of the ''

Frankokratia The ''Frankokratia'' ( el, Φραγκοκρατία, la, Francocratia, sometimes anglicized as Francocracy, "rule of the Franks"), also known as ''Latinokratia'' ( el, Λατινοκρατία, la, Latinocratia, "rule of the Latins") and ...

'' period in place of the

Greek Orthodox The term Greek Orthodox Church (Greek language, Greek: Ἑλληνορθόδοξη Ἐκκλησία, ''Ellinorthódoxi Ekklisía'', ) has two meanings. The broader meaning designates "the Eastern Orthodox Church, entire body of Orthodox (Chalced ...

Metropolis of Larissa The Metropolis of Larissa and Tyrnavos ( el, Ιερά Μητρόπολις Λαρίσης και Τυρνάβου) is a Greek Orthodox metropolitan see in Thessaly, Greece. History Christianity penetrated early to Larissa, though its first bishop ...

. Following the recovery of Larissa by the Greeks, the see became titular. The see has been vacant since the death of its last incumbent, Giuseppe Mojoli, in 1980.

History

Christianity penetrated early to

, though its first bishop is recorded only in 325 at the Council of Nicaea. Following the

Fourth Crusade The Fourth Crusade (1202–1204) was a Latin Christian armed expedition called by Pope Innocent III. The stated intent of the expedition was to recapture the Muslim-controlled city of Jerusalem, by first defeating the powerful Egyptian Ayyubid S ...

and

's incorporation into the

Kingdom of Thessalonica The Kingdom of Thessalonica () was a short-lived Crusader State founded after the Fourth Crusade over conquered Byzantine lands in Macedonia and Thessaly. History Background After the fall of Constantinople to the crusaders in 1204, Bonifac ...

, a Roman Catholic archbishop was installed in the place of the previous

occupant. The city was soon recovered by the Greek

Despotate of Epirus The Despotate of Epirus ( gkm, Δεσποτᾶτον τῆς Ἠπείρου) was one of the Greek successor states of the Byzantine Empire established in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade in 1204 by a branch of the Angelos dynasty. It claim ...

, however, possibly as early as 1212 and the Greek Orthodox metropolitan restored.

Pope Honorius III Pope Honorius III (c. 1150 – 18 March 1227), born Cencio Savelli, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 18 July 1216 to his death. A canon at the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, he came to hold a number of importa ...

later conferred the see of

Thermopylae Thermopylae (; Ancient Greek and Katharevousa: (''Thermopylai'') , Demotic Greek (Greek): , (''Thermopyles'') ; "hot gates") is a place in Greece where a narrow coastal passage existed in antiquity. It derives its name from its hot sulphur ...

to the exiled Latin archbishop.

Titular bishops

*Honore Visconti, 1630 *Antonio Pignatelli del Rastrello, later became

Pope Innocent XII Pope Innocent XII ( la, Innocentius XII; it, Innocenzo XII; 13 March 1615 – 27 September 1700), born Antonio Pignatelli, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 12 July 1691 to his death in September 1700. He ...

, 1652 * Johann Hugo von Orsbeck, 1672 *Baldassare Cardinal Cenci (Sr.), 1691 * Francesco Acquaviva d’Aragona, 1697 *Giovanni Battista Anguisciola, 1706 *Luigi Carafa (Jr.), 1713 *Troiano Acquaviva d’Aragona, 1930 *Giovanni Saverio di Leoni, 1733 *Bernardo Froilán Saavedra Sanjurjo, 1736 *Pedro Clemente de Aróstegui, 1742 *Blasius Paoli, 1750 *Francesco Saverio Passari, 1786 *Salvatore Maria Caccamo, O.S.A., 1815 *

Francesco Canali Francesco Canali (1764, Perugia–1835, Ferrara) was an Italian cardinal. He was the Titular Archbishop of Larissa. Early life Francesco Canali studied in his native city of Perugia and was ordained in December 1786 as a deacon. Two year ...

, 1827 *Giuseppe Novak, 1843 *

François-Marie-Benjamin Richard François-Marie-Benjamin Richard de la Vergne (; 1 March 1819 – 27 January 1908) was a French cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and served as the Archbishop of Paris. His cause of canonization has commenced and he has the title of Servant ...

, 1875 *Giovanni Rebello Cardoso de Menezes, 1887 *Agostino Ciasca, O.S.A., 1891 *Diomede Angelo Raffaele Gennaro Falconio, O.F.M., 1899 *Carlo Montagnini, 1913 *Antonio Maria Grasselli, O.F.M.Conv., 1913 *Felipe Arginzonis y Astobiza, O.C.D., 1918 *Domenico Spolverini, 1933 *José Horacio Campillo Infante, 1939 *Antonio Giordani, 1956 * Giuseppe Mojoli, 1960

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Frankokratia

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