The Latin or Roman Catholic Archbishopric of Larissa is a titular see of the Catholic Church. It was established briefly as a residential episcopal see at Larissa, Thessaly, during the first decades of the Frankokratia period in place of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Larissa. Following the recovery of Larissa by the Greeks, the see became titular. The see has been vacant since the death of its last incumbent, Giuseppe Mojoli, in 1980.

History Christianity penetrated early to Larissa, though its first bishop is recorded only in 325 at the Council of Nicaea. Following the Fourth Crusade and Thessaly's incorporation into the Kingdom of Thessalonica, a Roman Catholic archbishop was installed in the place of the previous Greek Orthodox occupant.

The city was soon recovered by the Greek Despotate of Epirus, however, possibly as early as 1212 and the Greek Orthodox metropolitan restored. Pope Honorius III later conferred the see of Thermopylae to the exiled Latin archbishop.

Titular bishops

Honore Visconti, 1630 Antonio Pignatelli del Rastrello, later became Pope Innocent XII, 1652 Johann Hugo von Orsbeck, 1672 Baldassare Cardinal Cenci (Sr.), 1691 Francesco Acquaviva d’Aragona, 1697 Giovanni Battista Anguisciola, 1706 Luigi Carafa (Jr.), 1713 Troiano Acquaviva d’Aragona, 1930 Giovanni Saverio di Leoni, 1733 Bernardo Froilán Saavedra Sanjurjo, 1736 Pedro Clemente de Aróstegui, 1742 Blasius Paoli, 1750 Francesco Saverio Passari, 1786 Salvatore Maria Caccamo, OSA, 1815 Francesco Canali, 1827 Giuseppe Novak, 1843 François-Marie-Benjamin Richard, 1875 Giovanni Rebello Cardoso de Menezes, 1887 Agostino Ciasca, OSA, 1891 Diomede Angelo Raffaele Gennaro Falconio, OFM, 1899 Carlo Montagnini, 1913 Antonio Maria Grasselli, OFMConv, 1913 Felipe Arginzonis y Astobiza, OCD, 1918 Domenico Spolverini, 1933 José Horacio Campillo Infante, 1939 Antonio Giordani, 1956 Giuseppe Mojoli, 1960

See also List of Catholic titular sees

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