–1698) Card. Marcello d'Aste (1700–1709) Card. Giovanni Battista Bussi (1710–1726) Card. Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini (20 Jan 1727 –1731) Card. Bartolomeo Massei (1731–1745) Nicola Manciforte (1746–1762) Card. Filippo Acciaioli (1763–1766) Card. Giovanni Ottavio Bufalini (1766–1782) Card. Vincenzo Ranuzzi (14 Feb 1785 – 27 Oct 1800 Died) Sede vacante (1800–1816) Card. Nicola Riganti (1816–1822) Card. Giovanni Francesco Falzacappa (1823–1824 Resigned) Card. Cesare Nembrini Pironi Gonzaga (1824–1837) Card. Antonio Maria Cadolini, B. (12 Feb 1838 – 1 Aug 1851 Died) Card. Antonio Benedetto Antonucci (5 Sep 1851 – 29 Jan 1879 Died) Card. Achille Manara (1879–1906 Died) Archbishops of Ancona e Numana Title granted: 14 September 1904 Name changed: 5 July 1975 to: Anconitana-Numanensis Giovanni Battista Ricci (21 Jul 1906 – 10 Nov 1929 Died) Mario Giardini, B. (1931–1940 Resigned) Marco Giovanni Della Pietra, O.F.M. (25 Mar 1940 – 13 Jan 1945 Died) Egidio Bignamini (18 Nov 1945 – 21 Dec 1966 Died) Felicissimo Stefano Tinivella, O.F.M. (22 Feb 1967 – 6 Jul 1968 Resigned) Carlo Maccari (5 Aug 1968 – 1 Jul 1989 Retired) Archbishops of Ancona–Osimo United: 30 September 1986 with the Diocese of Osimo Metropolitan See Card. Dionigi Tettamanzi (1989–1991) Franco Festorazzi (6 April 1991 – 8 January 2004 retired) Card. Edoardo Menichelli (8 January 2004 – 14 July 2017 retired) Angelo Spina (14 July 2017 ... ) See also Roman Catholic Diocese of Osimo Roman Catholic Diocese of Osimo and Cingoli Timeline of Ancona References Books Reference works for bishops pp. 664–666. Studies Fraikin, J. (1914). Ancone, in: Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, Tome deuxième (Paris: Letouzey 1914), pp. 1528–1537. Grimaldi, F. (1984), "I vescovi di Numana, secoli V–XII. Cronotassi critica," in" Studia Picena, n. 49, 1984, pp. 35–41. Kehr, Paul Fridolin (1909). Italia pontificia Vol. IV (Berlin: Weidmann 1909), pp. 194–199. Lanzoni, Francesco (1927). Le diocesi d'Italia dalle origini al principio del secolo VII (an. 604). Faenza: F. Lega, pp. 381–389. Natalucci, Mario (1938). Il tesoro e l'archivio della Cattedrale di Ancona. Ancona: Stabilimento Tipografico Pucci, 1938. Schwartz, Gerhard (1907). Die Besetzung der Bistümer Reichsitaliens unter den sächsischen und salischen Kaisern: mit den Listen der Bischöfe, 951-1122. Leipzig: B.G. Teubner. pp. 240–241. (in German) External links GCatholic.org Catholic Hierarchy page Roman Catholic dioceses in le Marche Dioceses established in the 3rd century 3rd-century establishments in Italy