The Diocese of Orte (Latin: ''Dioecesis Hortanus'') was a Roman Catholic diocese located in the town of

Orte Orte is a town, ''comune'', former Catholic bishopric and Latin titular see in the province of Viterbo, in the central Italian region of Lazio, located about north of Rome and about east of Viterbo. Geography Orte is situated in the Tiber V ...

in the

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in the Italian region of

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. In 1437, it was suppressed and united with the Diocese of Civita Castellana to form the Diocese of Civita Castellana e Orte."Diocese of Orte"
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''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved May 1, 2016"Titular Episcopal See of Orte"
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Ordinaries

Residential Bishops

* San Lanno ? (III - IV secolo) * Giovanni Montano ? (mentioned in 330) * San Cassiano ? (in 363) * Leone (in 384) 5* Martiniano (o Marziano) ? (in 502) * Ubaldo Prosenio ? (in 592) * Blando ? (in 598) * Calunnioso ? (in 600) * Giuliano (in 649) * Maurizio (on 743) * Adone or Adamo (in 761) * Stefano I (in 826) * Arsenio (first in 855 - death August 868) * Zaccaria (in 869) * Stefano II (in 904) * Pietro I (in 916) * Giorgio (in 963) 6* Lamberto (in 1005) 7* Giovanni I (prima del 1017 - dopo il 1024) 7* Landovino (in 1036) 7* Gregorio (in 1049) 8* Rodolfo (prima del 1126 - dopo il 1149 9 * Paolo I (prima del 1168 - dopo il 1196) * Paolo II (in 1200 circa) * Giovanni II (prima del 6 October 1206 - after 2 October 1212) * Guido (1221 - after 1224) * Trasimondo (prima del 1239 - dopo il 1243) * Giovanni III (in 1248) * Pietro II, O.F.M. (12 April 1255 - death after 1259) * Corrado (19 December 1284 - ?) * Bartolomeo (26 January 1296 - 1298 deceduto) * Lorenzo da Velletri, O.F.M. (3 October 1298 - death 1333 or 1334) * Nicolò Zabereschi (1 March 1339 0- death 1362) * Giovanni IV (25 July 1363 - ?) * Pietro III (in 1365) * Giovanni Cappucci 1 O.P. (1366 - death 1393) * Giovanni Cappucci, O.P. (1366 Appointed – 1393 Died) * Paolo Alberti, O.F.M. (12 Nov 1395 Appointed – 13 May 1420 Appointed,

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(19 Mar 1432 Appointed – 5 Oct 1437 Appointed, Bishop of Civita Castellana e Orte)

Titular bishops

In 1991 the diocese was nominally restored as Latin

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of Orte (Italian) / Hortanum (Latin) / Hortan(us) (Latin). It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank : * José de Jesús Madera Uribe,

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(M.Sp.S.) (1991.05.28 – death 2017.01.21) as

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of the

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(army archbishopric, USA) (1991.05.28 – 2004.09.15) and as emeritate; previously Coadjutor Bishop of

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(USA) (1979.12.18 – 1980.07.01), succeeding as Bishop of Fresno (1980.07.01 – 1991.05.28) *

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Andrzej Przybylski (2017.05.20 – ...), as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Częstochowa (Poland) (2017.05.20 – ...).

References

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