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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Dominican Order
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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 Numana (1280.05.15 – 1285.04.24)
* Gaetano Baliganto (? – 1296?)
* Rufino (1296.08.09 – ?), previously Bishop of Montemarano (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, Friars Minor (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, O.E.S.A. (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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*
Francesco Cittadini
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Lorenzo Celsi (bishop)
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The bishopric was nominally restored in 1698, under he shortened name Castro, or Castrum in Tuscia in Latin.
* Titular Archbishop Edgard Aristide Maranta, Capuchin Friars Minor 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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of Paraná (Argentina) (1983.01.19 – 1986.04.01), then
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(Peru) (1983.08.18 – 1986.10.18), later Auxiliary Bishop of
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(Peru) (2003.11.29 – 2014.10.28)
* Titular Bishop Rimantas Norvila (1997.05.28 – 2002.01.05)
* Titular Bishop Patrick K. Lynch,
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