The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of İzmir (Smyrna, Smirne) (Latin: Archidioecesis Smyrnensis) is a Latin archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Asian Turkey (Anatolia).
The archdiocese's cathedral motherchurch and thus see of its archbishop is St. John's Cathedral. It also includes a World Heritage Site: Meryem Ana Evi Meryem Ana Evi, Bülbüldağı.
Lorenzo Piretto, Dominican Order (O.P.), was appointed Archbishop of İzmir by Pope Francis on 7 December 2015.
In 1346 was established a Latin Archdiocese of Smyrna (Smirne).
In 1575 it was suppressed as residential see but immediately transformed into a Latin Titular archbishopric. As such it has had three incumbents :
Eugenio di Pesaro, Augustinian Order (O.E.S.A.) (1575.11.16 – ?)
Agostino Buzio di Varese, Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (1580.07.04 – ?)
Carlo Gaudenzio Madruzzo (1595.10.23 – 1600.04.02) (later Cardinal*)
In 1625 the residential see was restored, albeit for now demoted to missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction, as Apostolic Vicariate of Smyrna (Smirne).
It was promoted to nominally Metropolitan Archdiocese of Izmir (Smyrna) by Pope Pius VII on March 18, 1818, albeit without any suffragan sees that usually constitute the ecclesiastical province under a metropolitan archdiocese.
On 12 September 1896 it gained territory from the suppressed Apostolic Prefecture of Trabzon, on 20 July 1931 it lost territory to the Diocese of Chios (insular Greece).
It enjoyed Papal visits from Pope Paul VI in July 1967, from Pope John Paul II in November 1979 and from Pope Benedict XVI in November 2006.
(all Roman Rite)
Archbishops of Smyrna (Smirne)
Guillaume Adam, Dominican Order (O.P.) (1318 – 1322.10.06), later Archbishop of Soltania (1322.10.06 – 1324.10.26), Metropolitan Archbishop of Bar (Montenegro) (1324.10.26 – death 1341)
Benedetto (1343 – ?)
Paolo di Tebe (1345.07.10 – 1357.05.15), later Metropolitan Archbishop of Thebae (Thebes, Greece) (1357.05.15 – 1366.04.17), Latin Titular Patriarch of Constantinople (1366.04.17 – death 1370), Apostolic Administrator of Patrasso (1367.10.20 – 1370)
Pietro da Piacenza, Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (1358.01.31 – 1362.03.04), later Archbishop-Bishop of Olena (1362.03.04 – ?)
Tommaso di Savignon, O.F.M. (1362.06.10 – ?)
Raimondo di San Michele, Carmelite Order (O. Carm.) (1373.02.14 – ?)
Giorgio Dalmato, O. Carm. (1379.09.06 – ?)
Giovanni di Berriaco, Augustinian Order (O.E.S.A.) (1386.10.10 – ?)
Giovanni di Leicester, O. Carm. (1398 – ?)
Paolo (1410 – ?)
Francesco di Monte Granelli, O.F.M. (1412.06.04 – ?)
Apostolic Vicars of Smyrna (Smirne)
Pietro de Marchi, O.P. (1625.02.19 – death 1648.07.13), previously Bishop of Santorini (insular Greece) (1611.04.18 – 1625.02.19)
Giacinto Subiani, O.P. (1648.07.13 – 1652.03.05), Titular Archbishop of Edessa (1644.11.14 – 1648.07.13), succeeding as former Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Smyrna (1644.11.14 – 1648.07.13), later Apostolic Vicar of Constantinopole (Turkey) (1652.03.05 – 1656.10.15)
Leone Macripodari (1659.04.05 – 1689)
Antonio Giustiniani (1690.01.13 – 1694.02.08), later Bishop of Syros (Greece) (1694.02.08 – 1701.01.24), Apostolic Administrator of Diocese of Andros (insular Greece) (1698.05.02 – ?), Metropolitan Archbishop of Naxos (insular Greece) (1701.01.24 – death 1730.03)
Apostolic Administrator Daniel Duranti, O.F.M. (1696.06.07 – 1706?; see below), while Metropolitan Archbishop of Skopje (Macedonia) (1690.12.11 – 1702.07.29)
Fr. Nicolaus de Camillis (1706.05.12 – 1710.05.07), later Bishop of Syros (Greece) (1710.05.07 – 1710 not possessed)
Apostolic Administrator Daniel Duranti, O.F.M. (see above 1708.06.23 – 1713.08.17), retired Metropolitan Archbishop of Skopje (Macedonia)
Davide di San Carlo, Discalced Carmelites (O.C.D.) (1713.11.23 – death 1715.04.18)
Filippo Bavestrelli (1715.08.09 – 1720.09.30), later Bishop of Chios (insular Greece) (1720.09.30 – death 1754.04.06)
Pietro Battista di Garbagnate, Reformed Franciscans (O.F.M. Ref.) (1718.04.09 – 1720.06.15), emeritate as Titular Archbishop of Cartagine (1720.06.15 – death 1730.04.11)
Pietro Francesco Lombardi, O.F.M. Ref. (1720.08.30 – 1721.07.05), emeritate as Titular Bishop of Talia (1721.07.05 – death 1722)
Bishop-elect Antonio Maturi, O.F.M. (1722.04.15 – 1731.05.21), later Bishop of Syros (Greece) (1731.05.21 – 1733.04.13), Metropolitan Archbishop of Naxos (Greece) (1733.04.13 – 1749.07.21), Archbishop-Bishop of above Syros (1749.07.21 – death 1750.10)
Dario de Longhis, O.F.M. (1730.09.02 – 1735.05.25), later Bishop of Syros (Greece) (1735.05.25 – retired 1748.07.27)
Gerolamo di Peraino, O.F.M. Ref. (1735.02.05 – 1747)
Joannes Baptista Bavestrelli (1747.05.12 – 1754.09.16), later Bishop of Chios (insular Greece) (1754.09.16 – 1772.08.31), emeritate as Titular Archbishop of Heraclea (1772.08.31 – death 1777.04.20)
Eusebio Franzosini, O.P. (1754.12.20 – 1763)
Domenico di Valdagno, O.F.M. Ref. (1763.08.26 – 1779)
Pietro Graveri di Moretta, O.F.M. Obs. (1779.12.23 – 1781.08.17)
Giulio Maria Pecori d’Ameno, O.F.M. (1781.08.18 – 1788.09.23), later Titular Bishop of Aradus (1788.09.23 – death 1796.02.28) & Apostolic Vicar of Constantinopole (Turkey) (1788.09.23 – 1796.02.28)
Pasquale Orlandini da Bergamo, O.F.M. Ref. (1790.04.16 – 1817.06.26)
Bishop-elect Luigi Maria Cardelli, O.F.M. Ref. (1817.06.26 – 1818.03.18 see below), succeeding as former Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Smyrna (? – 1817.06.26)
'Metropolitan' Archbishops of Izmir (Smyrna)
Luigi Maria Cardelli, O.F.M. Ref. (see above 1818.03.18 – 1832.08.29), emeritate as Titular Archbishop of Acrida (1832.09.11 – 1868.06.11)
Pierre-Dominique-Marcellin Bonamie, Picpus Fathers (SS.CC.) (1835.02.13 – 1837.11.24), previously Latin Bishop of Baghdad (Iraq) (1832.05.04 – 1835.02.13); later Superior General of Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (Picpus Fathers) (1837.05.04 – 1853.07.26), emeritate as Titular Archbishop of Chalcedon (1837.11.24 – death 1874.07.08)
Antonio Mussabini (1838.03.06 – death 1861.05.04)
Giuseppe Maria Alberti (1862.01.07 – 1862.03.23 not possessed), previously Titular Bishop of Eumenia (1843.03.21 – 1851.10.30), Coadjutor Bishop of Syros (Greece) (1843.03.21 – 1851.10.30) succeeding as Bishop of Syros (1851.10.30 – death 1880.03.18)
Vincent Spaccapietra (1862.04.08 – death 1878.11.24), Lazarists (C.M.), previously Titular Bishop of Arcadiopolis (1852.11.21 – 1855.04.18), Metropolitan Archbishop of Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago) (1855.04.18 – 1859.09.12), Titular Archbishop of Ancyra (1859.09.12 – 1862.04.08)
Andrea Policarpo Timoni (1879.05.27 – 1904.08.01)
Domenico Raffaele Francesco Marengo, Dominican Order (O.P.) (1904.08.01 – death 1909.06.12), succeeding as former Coadjutor Archbishop of Izmir (1904.03.08 – 1904.08.01) & Titular Archbishop of Titopolis (1904.03.08 – 1904.08.01)
Giuseppe Antonio Zucchetti, Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (O.F.M.Cap.) (1909.12.22 – death 1920.03.08), former Apostolic Prefect of Mardin (Turkey) (1879 – 1909.12.22); emeritate as Titular Archbishop of Trapezus (1920.03.08 – death 1931.06.01)
Giovanni Battista Federico Vallega (1921.01.24 – 1929.03.01); later Titular Archbishop of Nicopolis in Epiro (1929.03.01 – death 1944.12.04), Apostolic Nuncio (papal ambassador) to Lithuania (1939.08.13 – retired 1939.12.09)
Apostolic Administrator Giovanni Battista Dellepiane (1929.02.27 – 1930.01.18), Titular Archbishop of Stauropolis (1929.07.18 – 1961.08.13), later papal diplomat: Apostolic Delegate to Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi (1930.01.18 – 1949.01.12), Apostolic Nuncio to Austria (1949.01.12 – 1951.12.21), Apostolic Nuncio to Austria (1951.12.21 – death 1961.08.13)
Eduardo Tonna (1929.11.26 – 1937.12.02), emeritate as Titular Archbishop of Garella (1937.12.02 – 1939.04.15) and finally Titular Archbishop of Miletus (1939.04.15 – 1963.11.07)
Joseph Emmanuel Descuffi, Lazarists (C.M.) (1937.12.03 – 1965.11.04), later Titular Archbishop of Antinoë (1965.11.04 – 1971?, died 1972)
Alfred Cuthbert Gumbinger, OFM Cap (1965.11.04 – death 1966.08.31)
Apostolic Administrator Saverio Zupi (1966 – 1967.09.09), Titular Archbishop of Serra (1961.10.28 – 1983.03.01), papal diplomat
Giovanni Enrico Boccella, Third Order Regular of St. Francis of Penance (T.O.R.) (1967.09.09 – 1978.12.07), emeritate as Titular Archbishop of Ephesus (1978.12.07 – death 1992.05.22)
Domenico Caloyera, O.P. (1978.12.07 – retired 1983.01.22), previously Apostolic Administrator sede plena of Istanbul of the Greeks (Turkey) (1955.05.27 – 1957.01.28), Apostolic Administrator of Istanbul of the Greeks (Turkey) (1957.01.28 – 1973)
Giuseppe Germano Bernardini, O.F.M. Cap. (1983.01.22 – retired 2004.10.11), also President of Episcopal Conference of Turkey (1989 – 1992), Apostolic Administrator of Apostolic Vicariate of Anatolia (Turkey) (1990.11.30 – 1993.07.02); previously Ecclesiastical Superior of Mission sui iuris of Trabzon (Turkey) (1966.12.19 – 1983.01.22), remained a while Apostolic Administrator of Trabzon (Turkey) (1983.01.22 – 1990.11.30)
Ruggero Franceschini, O.F.M. Cap. (2004.10.11 – retired 2015.11.07), also President of Episcopal Conference of Turkey (2001 – 2007.10 & 2010.09 – 2015.11.07) and remaining Apostolic Administrator of Anatolia (2010.06.12 – 2015.08.14); previously Titular Bishop of Sicilibba (1993.07.02 – 2004.10.11) & Apostolic Vicar of Anatolia (Turkey) (1993.07.02 – 2004.10.11)
Lorenzo Piretto, Dominican Order (O.P.) (2015 - ...)
