San Leone was a town and Catholic bishopric in Calabria, southern Italy, which remains a Latin titular see. Ecclesiastical history In 1322 the bishopric was established as Diocese of San Leone (Curiate Italian) / Sancti Leonis (Latin adjective) TO ELABORATE from the Italian Wiki Suppressed on 1571.11.27, its territory being merged into the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Santa Severina. Episcopal ordinaries (all Roman Rite) Suffragan Bishops of San Leone Giovanni (1322? – ?) Luca (? – death 1349) Adamo da Cimiliario, Italian Basilian Order of Grottaferrata (O.S.B.I.) (1349 – death 1349.10.12) Giovanni (? – death 1391) Nicola de Lorenzo, Augustinians (O.E.S.A.) (1391.06.05 – death 1400?) Giacomo Villani (1400 – 1400.10.07), later Metropolitan Archbishop of Santa Severina (Italy) (1400.10.07 – death 1410) Antonio, Conventual Friars Minor (O.F.M. Conv.) (1402.08.18 – ?) Antonio, O.F.M. (1402.08.18 – ?); previously Bishop of Segni (Italy) (1395.12.21 – 1402.08.18) Geminiano Giovanni de Sochefani, O.E.S.A. (1404.12.10 – ?) Nicola (? – death 1439) Guberto de Nichesola (1439.04.22 – ?) Giovanni Domenico (? – death 1490) Giovanni (1490.06.07 – ?) Matteo de Amatis (? – death 1518) Giuliano Dati (1518.02.26 – death 1524) Francesco Sperolo (1524.01.19 – 1526.01.19) Anselmo Sperolo, O.F.M. Conv. (1526.01.19 – 1531) Avanzio Cricche (1531.01.18 – death 1535) Ottaviano de Castello (1535.01.08 – death 1542) Tommaso Caselli, O.P. (1542.12.11 – 1544.10.27); later Bishop of Bertinoro (Italy) (1544.10.27 – 1548.05.07), Bishop of Oppido Mamertina (Italy) (1548.05.07 – 1550.10.03), Bishop of Cava (Italy) (1550.10.03 – 1571) Marco Salvidio (1544.11.14 – death 1555) Giulio Pavesi, Dominican Order (O.P.) (1555.08.23 – 1555.10.02); later Bishop of Vieste (Italy) (1555.10.02 – 1558.07.20), Metropolitan Archbishop of Sorrento (Italy) (1558.07.20 – death 1571.02.11) Giulio Rossi (1555.10.23 – death 1564.03) Alvaro Magelanes (1565.05.15 – 1571.11.27 see suppressed) Titular see In 1968 the diocese was nominally restored as Latin Titular bishopric, of the Episcopal (lowest) rank. It has had the following incumbents, mostly of fitting episcopal rank, with some exceptions of archiepiscopal rank: Eugène-Georges-Joseph Lecrosnier (1969.04.21 – 1979.11.03) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Chambéry–Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne–Tarentaise (France) (1969.04.21 – 1979.11.03); later Bishop of Belfort–Montbéliard (France) (1979.11.03 – retired 2000.03.01); died 2013 Stanisław Napierała (1980.08.25 – 1992.03.25) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Poznań (Posen, Poland) (1980.08.25 – 1992.03.25); later first Bishop of Kalisz (Poland) (1992.03.25 – retired 2012.07.21) Jacques Maurice Faivre (1992.04.29 – 1997.07.29) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Lyon (France) (1992.04.29 – 1997.07.29); later Bishop of Le Mans (France) (1997.07.29 – retired 2008.07.03), died 2010