abandoned, losing its diocesan archive. È in questa occasione che andò in gran parte perduto anche l'archivio. Visiting in the late Cinquecento, bishop Properzio Resta described its pitiful state, including cathedral and palace (Pesavento). Bishops' attempts in the Seicento and Settecento to restore the cathedral and build a new palace were undone by repeated, demotivating earthquakes. As part of a reorganization of the dioceses of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Pope Pius VII in 1818 incorporated the already united territory of the diocese of Cerenza into that of the diocese of Cariati, later merged itself into the present Archdiocese of Rossano-Cariati Vincenzio d'Avino, As is customary, the bull referred to the see in adjectival form, and called it , suggesting as the Latin substantive (noun) form: . The gives as the Latin substantive form and , rather than , as the Italian form, but indicates as the Latin adjective. Residential Ordinaries Incomplete : first incumbent(s?) lacking Policronio (1099? – ?) Giberto (1198? – ?) Guglielmo (? – death 1208) Bernardo, Cistercian Order (O. Cist.) (1208 – death 1216) Nicola (1216 – death 1233?) Matteo, O. Cist. (1234 – ?) Nicola (1342.08.13 – ?), also Bishop of Cariati (Italy) (1342.08.13 – ?) Giovanni Fardini, Dominican Order (O.P.) (1372.12.22 – ?) Jacques de la Chastre, O.P. (1391.02.22 – ?) Guglielmo (1394.02.13 – ?) Gerardo (? – 1394.02.13), next Archbishop of Rossano (Italy) (1394.02.13 – 1399.09.27), Metropolitan Archbishop of Santa Severina (Italy) (1399.09.27 – death 1400) Tommaso Rossi (1420.12.23 – 1429.05.18), next Bishop of Oppido Mamertina (Italy) (1429.05.18 – 1429.12.23), Bishop of Strongoli (Italy) (1429.12.23 – death 1433) TO BE COMPLETED ... From 1481 (personal union), see the Bishops of Diocese of Cariati. Titular see The diocese was nominally restored in 1968 as Latin Titular bishopric of Cerenzia (Curiate Italian) / Pumentum (Latin) / Cerenza / (Latin adjective). It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank : Andrea Bernardo Schierhoff (born USA) (1968.11.11 –death 1986.12.01), first as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of La Paz (Bolivia) (1968.11.11 – 1982.12.17), then as Apostolic Vicar of Pando (Bolivia) (1982.12.17 – 1986.12.01) José María Arancibia (1987.02.26 – 1993.02.13) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Córdoba (Argentina) (1987.02.26 – 1993.02.13); later Coadjutor Archbishop of Mendoza (Argentina) (1993.02.13 – 1996.03.25), succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Mendoza (1996.03.25 – retired 2012.11.10) Pere Tena Garriga (1993.06.09 – death 2014.02.10) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese