The city of Iconium in Lycaonia has been a Christian bishopric since the 1st century under the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. In 1662, a Roman Catholic titular archbishopric (Archidioecesis Iconiensis) was established, although the area had never actually been Catholic in profession.

List of titular bishops

Cardinal Pietro Caprano.
  • Joannes Mattaeus Caryophyllis (8 Aug 1622 Appointed - 23 May 1633)
  • Giulio Caracciolo, (24 Aug 1671 - )
  • Camillo Paolucci (26 Jun 1724 Appointed - 18 Apr 1746)
  • Matteo Trigona (1 Apr 1748 Appointed - 29 Jun 1754)
  • Agatino Maria Reggio Statella (17 Feb 1755 - 6 Feb 1764)
  • Giovanni Battista Caprara Montecuccoli (1 Dec 1766 Appointed - 21 Feb 1794)
  • Antonio Maria Odescalchi (1 Jun 1795 - 28 May 1804)
  • Pietro Caprano (8 Mar 1816 - 21 May 1829)
  • Jean-Baptiste Auvergne (29 Mar 1833 - 7 Sep 1836)
  • Niccola Candoni (28 Feb 1837 - 15 Nov 1838)
  • Johannes von Geissel (23 May 1842 - 19 Oct 1845)
  • Vincenzo Annovazzi (21 Sep 1846 - 4 Aug 1850 )
  • Antonio Ligi-Bussi, (17 Feb 1851 - 9 Sep 1862)
  • Luigi Puecher Passavalli, (17 May 1867 - 4 Oct 1897)
  • Raffaele Sirolli (14 Dec 1899 - 20 Apr 1903 Died)
  • Luigi Lazzareschi (22 Jun 1903 - 23 Jan 1918 Died)
  • Pietro di Maria (11 Jun 1918 - 3 Sep 1937)
  • Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Tisserant (25 Jun 1937 Appointed - 18 Feb 1946)
  • Luca Ermenegildo Pasetto, (22 Sep 1937 Appointed - 11 Nov 1950)
  • Sergio Pignedoli (22 Dec 1950 - 5 Mar 1973)

References

    Sources

    • Cheney, David M. "Iconium (Titular See)". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved June 16, 2018. (for Chronology of Bishops)
    • Chow, Gabriel. "Titular Metropolitan See of Iconium (Turkey)". GCatholic.org. Retrieved June 16, 2018. (for Chronology of Bishops)
    • Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 451
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