The Roman Catholic Diocese of Castro del Lazio was a residential bishopric from 600 to 1649 and is now a Latin Catholic titular see under the shortened name Castro.
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History

The bishopric was founded in 600 AD under the name Bisenzio (Latin Bisentium), the Italianized medieval name of the Ancient Etruscan city Visentium. In 680 it was renamed as Diocese of Castro del Lazio, also called Castrum in Tuscia. On 31 August 1369, it lost territory to establish the

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. On 13 September 1649, it was suppressed and its territory used to establish the

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Bishops

* Bishop Rolando (1206? – 1207?) * Ruggero Calcagnini,

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(O.P.) (1244? – 1253?) * Angelo (1274 – ?) * Ermanno (1278.07.18 – ?) * Corrado da Montefiascone, O.P. (? – death 1285?) * Bernardo (1285.04.24 – ?), previously Bishop of

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(1280.05.15 – 1285.04.24) * Gaetano Baliganto (? – 1296?) * Rufino (1296.08.09 – ?), previously Bishop of

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(1290? – 1296.08.09) * Pietro (1308.04.07 – death 1309) * Giacomo (1309.04.11 – 1311.05.14), later Bishop of

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(Italy) (1311.05.14 – ?) * Gregorio Bonfili,

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(O.E.S.A.) (1311.05.09 – death 1321) * Pietro, O.E.S.A. (1322.01.08 – ?) * Giacomo,

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(O.F.M.) (1331.01.30 – 1352) * Stefano (1353.01.18 – 1363.01.01) * Paolo Guiducci (1364.04.22 – ?) * Giovanni Cambaruti (1373.07.18 – 1377 deposed) * Angelo Gozzadini (1380 – death1383) * Giovanni (1384 – ?) * Benedetto (1394.04.11 – death 1395) * (vacancy?) * Giovanni (1401? – ?) * Pietro Santo,

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(1420.01.15 – ?), previously Bishop of

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(1410.07.30 – 1420.01.15) * Angelo (1429.05.09 – death 1437) * Marco Cobello (1437.12.11 – ?) * Antonio (1463.03.31 – 1467.10.30), later

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(Italy) (1467.10.30 – death 1473.10.10) * Daniele da Forlì, O.F.M. (1467.10.30 – ?) *

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, O.F.M. (1468.05.04 – ?) *

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(1469.08.18 – 1478?) * Tito Veltri de Viterbo (1480.11.10 – 1511.04.30) * Giorgio Uberti (1518.04.12 – 1528) * Leone Leonici (1529.08.20 – 1532) *

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(1532.04.17 – death 1535) *

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(1535.10.20 – 1543.07.06), later Bishop of

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(Italy) (1543.07.06 – 1552) * Girolamo Maccabei de Toscanella (1543.07.06 – 1568))"Bishop Girolamo Maccabei de Toscanella"
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(1568.11.19 – 1581.01 deposed) *

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(1581.01.13 – death 1591.05.07) *

Lorenzo Celsi (bishop) Lorenzo Celsi (died 1603) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Castro del Lazio (1591–1603). ''(in Latin)'' ''(in Latin)''"Bishop Lorenzo Celsi"
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(1603.02.26 – 1611) *

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(1611.01.31 – death 1614.07.09), later Bishop of

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(1614.11.24 – death 1616.10.31) * Ireneo Brasavola, O.F.M. (1617.01.09 – death 1621) * Alessandro Carissimi (1621.12.15 – death 1631.09) * Pompeo Balbani (1632.01.19 – death 1639)"Bishop Pompeo Balbani"
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(1640.09.10 – death 1648) *

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, B. (1648.05.18 – death 1649.03.18)

Titular see

The bishopric was nominally restored in 1698, under he shortened name Castro, or Castrum in Tuscia in Latin. * Titular Archbishop Edgard Aristide Maranta,

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O.F.M. Cap. (1968.12.19 – 1975.01.29) * Titular Bishop Estanislao Esteban Karlic (1977.06.06 – 1983.01.19), as Auxiliary Bishop of Córdoba (Argentina) (1977.06.06 – 1983.01.19), later

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(Peru) (1983.08.18 – 1986.10.18), later Auxiliary Bishop of

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(Peru) (1986.10.18 – 1991.12.04), Auxiliary Bishop of

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References

Sources and external links

GigaCatholic, with incumbent biography links - date for all sections
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