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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Pisa

The Duomo at Sunset

The Archdiocese of Pisa (Latin: Archidioecesis Pisana) is a metropolitan see of the Catholic Church in Italy. It was founded in the 4th century and elevated to the dignity of an archdiocese on 21 April 1092, by Pope Urban II. Its mother church is the Duomo in the Piazza dei Miracoli. Since 1986 the Archbishop of Pisa has been Alessandro Plotti.

From the late eleventh to the early thirteenth century, the Pisan archdiocese was the feudal suzerain of the four giudicati of Sardinia.

List of Archbishops and Bishops of Pisa (incomplete)

Gaudentius, present at the Council of Rome (313)
St. Senior (410), who consecrated St. Patrick
Joannes (493)
one, name unknown, who took part in the schism of the Three Chapters (556)
Alexander (648)
Maurianus (680)
one, name unknown, taken prisoner by Charlemagne at the siege of Pavia (774)
Oppizo (1039), the founder of the Camaldolite convent of S. Michele
Landulfus (1077), sent by Pope Gregory VII as legate to Corsica
Gerardus (1080), a controversialist against the Greeks
Dagobert (1085), the first archbishop, to whom Urban II gave the sees of Corsica as suffragans in 1099, the first Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem
Pietro Moriconi (1105)
Cardinal Uberto Lanfranchi (1132)
Baldwin, Archbishop of Pisa
Cardinal Villano Gaetani (1145), compelled to flee from the city on account of his fidelity to Alexander III (1167)
Villano Villani (1146 - 1175)
Ubaldo Lanfranchi (1176 - 1208)
Lotario Rosari (1208), also Patriarch of Jerusalem (1216)
Federico Visconti (1254), who held provincial synods in 1258, 1260, and 1262
Teodorico Ranieri
Ruggieri degli Ubaldini
John of Polo (Giovanni de Polo)
Oddone della Sala (1312) had litigations with the republic, and later became Latin Patriarch of Alexandria
Simone Saltorelli
Giovanni Scarlatti (1348), who had been legate to Armenia and to the emperor at Constantinople
Francesco Moricotti Prignani
Lotto Gambacorta (1381), compelled to flee after the death of his brother Pietro, tyrant of Pisa (1392)
Alamanno Adinari (1406), a cardinal who had an important part in the conciliabulum of Pisa and in the Council of Constance
Filippo de' Medici
Cardinal Francesco Salviati Riario (1475), hung at Florence in connexion with the conspiracy of the Pazzi; succeeded by his nephew
Rafaele Riario (1497)
Cesare Riario (1499)
Onofrio de' Bartolini (1518)
Pietro Jacopo of Bourbon
Giovanni Ricci^[1]
Cardinal Scipione Rebiba (1556)
Giovanni Cardinal de' Medici (1560), a son of Cosimo
Cardinal Angelo Niccolini (1564)^[2]
Cardinal Carlo Antonio Dal Pozzo (1582), founder of the Collegio Puteano, and author of works on canon and on civil law
Francesco Bonciani, Galileo's opponent
Giulio de' Medici (1620), served on missions for the duke, founded the seminary
Cardinal Scipione Pannocchieschi (1636)
Cardinal Cosimo Corsi (19 December 1853 - 7 October 1870)
Paolo Micallef ( 1871 - 1883 )
Ferdinando Capponi (8 March 1883 - 21 March 1903)
Cardinal Pietro Maffi (22 June 1903 - 17 March 1931)
Gabriele Vettori (6 February 1932 - 2 July 1947)
Ugo Camozzo (13 January 1948 - 22 September 1970)
Benvenuto Matteucci (2 January 1971 - 7 June 1986)
Alessandro Plotti (7 June 1986 - 6 April 2008)
Giovanni Paolo Benotto (6 April 2008 - )