Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Izmir
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The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of İzmir (Latin: Archidioecesis Smyrnensis) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Turkey. It was erected by Pope Pius VII on March 18, 1818, without any suffragan sees that usually accompany a metropolitan archdiocese.
The archdiocese's motherchurch and thus seat of its archbishop is St. John's Cathedral. The current Archbishop of İzmir is His Excellency Ruggero Franceschini, OFM Cap, having been appointed by Pope John Paul II on October 11, 2004.
[edit] List of archbishops of İzmir
- Andrea Policarpo Timoni (1879 - 1904)
- Domenico Raffaele Francesco Marengo, OP (1904 - 1909)
- Giuseppe Antonio Zucchetti, OFM Cap (1909 - 1920)
- Giovanni Battista Federico Vallega (1921 - 1929)
- Eduardo Tonna (1929 - 1937)
- Joseph Emmanuel Descuffi, CM (1937 - 1965)
- Alfred Cuthbert Gumbinger, OFM Cap (1965 - 1966)
- Giovanni Enrico Boccella, TOR (1967 - 1978)
- Domenico Caloyera, OP (1978 - 1983)
- Giuseppe Germano Bernardini, OFM Cap (1983 - 2004)
- Ruggero Franceschini, OFM Cap (2004 - present)
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