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The 'Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Genoa' is a metropolitan see of the Roman Catholic Church in Italy.

Erected in the third century, it was elevated to an archdiocese on 20 March 1133. The archdiocese of Genova was, in 1986, united with diocese of Bobbio-San Colombano, forming the Archdiocese of Genova-Bobbio; however a split in 1989 returned it to the Archdiocese of Genova.

Contents

Archbishops

Medieval

Modern

Archbishops

Medieval

★ Romulus of Genoa

★ Airaldo Guaraco

★ Siro de' Porcello (1133 - 1163)

★ Ugone della Volta (1163 - 1188)

★ Boniface (1188 - 1203)

★ Ottone II Ghiglini (1203 - 1239)

★ Giovanni de' Rossi (1239 - 1252)

★ Gualtiero da Vezzano (1253 - 1274)

★ Bernardo de' Arimondi (1276 - 1287)

★ Opizzino Fieschi (1288 - 1292)

★ Blessed Giacomo da Varazze (Jacopo da Varagine) (1292 - 1298)

★ Porchetto Spinola (1299 - 1321)

★ Bartolomeo de' Maroni (1321 - 1335)

★ Dino de' Tusci (1336 - 1342)

★ Giacomo Peloso da Santa Vittoria (1342 - 1349)

★ Bertrando Bessaduri (1349 - 1358)

★ Guido Scetten (1358 - 1368)

★ Andrea della Torre (1368 - 1377)

★ Lanfranco Sacco (1377 - 1382)

★ Giacomo III Fieschi (1383 - 1400)

★ Pileo de' Marini (1400 - 1433)

★ Pietro (o Pietronzino) de' Giorgi (1433 - 1436)

★ Giorgio Fieschi (1436 - 1439)

★ Giacomo Imperiale (1439 - 1452)

★ Paolo Campofregoso (1453 - 1495)

★ Giorgio Costa (1495 - 1496)

★ Paolo Campofregoso (1496 - 1498)

★ Giovanni Maria Sforza (1498 - 1520)

★ Innocenzo Cybo (1520 - 1550)

★ Gerolamo Sauli (1550 - 1559)

★ Agostino Maria Salvago (1559 - 1567)

★ Cipriano Pallavicino (1567 - 1586)

★ Antonio Sauli (1586 - 1591)

★ Alessandro Centurione (1591 - 1596)

★ Matteo Rivarola (1596 - 1600)

★ Orazio Spínola (20 December 1600-24 June 1616)

Modern

★ Archbishop Giuseppe Spina (24 May 1802-13 December 1816)

★ Archbishop Luigi Emmanuele Nicolo Lambruschini, B. (1819-26 June 1830)

★ Archbishop Placido Maria Tadini, O.C.D. (28 October 1831-22 November 1847)

★ Archbishop Salvatore Magnasco (1871-1892)

★ Archbishop Tommaso Reggio (1892-1901)

★ Archbishop Edoardo Pulciano (16 November 1901-25 December 1911)

★ Archbishop Tommaso Cardinal Boggiani, O.P. (10 March 1919-1921)

★ Archbishop Carlo Cardinal Minoretti (16 January 1925-13 March 1938)

★ Archbishop Pietro Boetto, S.J. (17 March 1938-31 January 1946)

★ Archbishop Giuseppe Siri (14 May 1946-6 July 1987)

★ Archbishop Giovanni Canestri (6 July 1987-20 April 1995)

★ Archbishop Dionigi Tettamanzi (20 April 1995-11 July 2002)

★ Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone, S.D.B. (10 December 2002-15 September 2006)

★ Archbishop Angelo Bagnasco, (29 August 2006-incumbent)
Suffragans include Albenga-Imperia, Chiavari, La Spezia-Sarzana-Brugnato, Savona-Noli, Tortona, and Ventimiglia-San Remo.