The Latin Catholic archdiocese of Nicosia was created during the Crusades (1095-1487) in Cyprus; later becoming titular. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia 31 Latin archbishops served beginning in 1196, shortly after the conquest of Cyprus by Richard I of England, to 1502.
List of archbishops
Resident
- 1196–1202 Alan
- 1206–1210/11 Thierry
- 1211 Durand
- 1217–1250 Eustorge de Montaigu
- 1251–1261 Ugo di Fagiano
- 1262 Giovanni Colonna
- 1267 Giles
- 1268 Jean d'Angoulême
- 1270–1273 Bertrand Bernardi
- 1278–1286 Ranulf
- 1280s Raphael
- 1288–1296 John of Ancona
- 1296–1303 Gérard de Langres
- 1303–? Henri de Gibelet (apostolic administrator)
- 1306–? Tommaso de Muro (apostolic administrator)
- 1308–? Pierre Erlant (apostolic administrator)
- 1311–? Pierre de Brie (apostolic administrator)
- 1312-1332 Giovanni Conti
- 1332–1342 Élie de Nabinal
- 1344–1361 Philippe de Chambarlhac
- 1361–1376 Raymond of Pradella
- 1376–1382 Béranger Grégoire
- During the Western Schism:
- Avignon obedience
- 1383–1406 Andrea Michelis
- 1411–1421 Hugh of Lusignan (apostolic administrator)
- Roman obedience
- 1382/3–c. 1395 Luchino
- 1395–1402 Corrado Caraccioli
- 1402–1412 Stefano da Carrara
- 1421–1442 Hugh of Lusignan
- 1442–1447 Galesius of Montolif
- 1447 Giovanni Moreli
- 1447–1451 Andreas Chrysoberges
- 1456–1457 James of Cyprus (elect)
- 1456–1463 Isidore of Kiev (apostolic administrator)
- 1467–1469 Nicola Guglielmo Goner
- 1471–1476 Louis Fenollet
- 1476 Giovanni Francesco Brusato
- 1477–1438/4 Vittore Marcello
- 1484–1495 Benedetto Superanzio (or Soranzo)
- 1495 Domenico Grimani (apostolic administrator)
- 1495–1502 Sebastiano Priuli
- 1502–1524 Aldobrandino Orsini
- 1524–1552 Livio Podocathor
- 1552–1557 Cesare Podocathor
- 1560–1586 Filippo Mocenigo
Titular
- 1728–1747 Raniero Felice Simonetti
- 1747–1773 Carlo Vittorio Amedeo delle Lanze
- 1775–1779 Giuseppe Vincentini
- 1791–1797 Giuseppe Rossi
- 1818–1826 Antonio Fernando Echanove Zaldívar
- 1828–1839 Filippo Maria Albertino Bellenghi
- 1832–1832 Giovanni Niccolò Tanara, became Archbishop of Urbino
- 1840–1862 Pietro Naselli
- 1877–1881 Stephen Petros X Azarian, became Patriarch of Cilicia
- 1882–1889 Elia Bianchi
- 1889–1904 Henry O'Callaghan
- 1905–1915 Cesare Boccanera
- 1915–1934 Francesco Cherubini
- 1934–1956 Guglielmo Piani
- 1957–1990 Aurelio Signora.
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