The Bishop of Ostia is the head of the Suburbicarian Diocese of Ostia, one of the seven suburbicarian sees of Rome. The position is now attached to the post of Dean of the College of Cardinals, as it has been since 1150, with the actual governance of the diocese entrusted to the Vicar General of Rome. List of bishopsBishops of Ostia (753-1105) Vacant 783-787 vacant 787-804 vacant 805-826 - Megisto (or Leo I), 854-868
vacant 870-878 vacant 983-996 Bishops of Ostia and Velletri vacant 1271-1273 vacant 1325-1327 vacant 1426-1431 - Antonio Correr, 1431-1445 (also Cardinal-bishop of Porto 1409/17-1431)
- Oliverio Carafa, 1503-1511 (also Cardinal-bishop of Albano, 1476-1483 and Sabina, 1483-1503)
- Raffaele Riario Sansoni, 1511-1521 (also Cardinal-bishop of Albano 1503-1507, Sabina 1507-1508 and Porto 1508-1511)
- Francesco Soderini 1523-1524 (also Cardinal-bishop of Albano 1516-1517, Palestrina 1516-1523 and Porto 1523)
- Niccolo Fieschi 1524 (also Cardinal-bishop of Albano 1518-1521, Sabina 1521-1523 and Porto 1523-1524)
- Alessandro Farnese 1524-1534, (also Cardinal-bishop of Frascati 1519-1523, Palestrina 1523, Sabina 1523-1524 and Porto 1524; became Pope Paul III)
- Giovanni Piccolomini, 1535-1537 (also Cardinal-bishop of Albano 1524-1531, Palestrina 1531-1533 and Porto 1533-1535)
- Giovanni Pietro Carafa, 1553-1555 (also Cardinal-bishop of Albano 1544-1546, Sabina 1546-1550, Frascati 1550-1553 and Porto 1553; became Pope Paul IV, † 1559)
- Jean du Bellay 1555-1560 (also Cardinal-bishop of Albano 1550-1553, Frascati 1553 and Porto 1553-1555)
- Rodolfo Pio de Carpi, 1562-1564 (also Cardinal-bishop of Albano 1550, Frascati 1553-1555 and Porto-Santa Rufina 1555-1562)
- Francesco Pisani, 1564-1570 (also Cardinal-bishop of Albano 1555-1557, Frascati 1557-1562 and Porto 1562-1564)
- Giovanni Girolamo Morone, 1570-1580 (also Cardinal-bishop of Albano 1560-1561, Sabina 1561-1562, Frascati 1562, 1564-1565, Palestrina 1562-1564 and Porto 1565-1570)
- Alessandro II Farnese, 1580-1589 (also Cardinal-bishop of Frascati 1565-1578, Sabina 1564-1565 and Porto 1578-1580)
- Giovanni Antonio Serbelloni, 1589-1591 (also Cardinal-bishop of Frascati 1583-1587, Sabina 1578, Palestrina 1578-1583, Porto 1587-1589)
- Tolomeo Gallo, 1603-1607 (also Cardinal-bishop of Sabina 1589-1591, Frascati 1591-1600 and Porto 1600-1603)
- Domenico Pinelli, 1607-1611 (also Cardinal-bishop of Frascati 1603-1605 and Porto 1605-1607)
- Antonio Maria Galli, 1615-1620 (also Cardinal-bishop of Frascati 1605-1608, Palestrina 1608-1611 and Porto 1611-1615)
- Antonio Maria Sauli, 1620-1623 (also Cardinal-bishop of Albano 1607-1611, Sabina 1611-1615 and Porto 1615-1620)
- Ottavio Bandini, 1626-1629 (also Cardinal-bishop of Palestrina 1621-1624 and Porto 1624-1626)
- Giovanni Battista Deti, 1629-1630 (also Cardinal-bishop of Albano 1623-1626, Frascati 1626 and Porto 1626-1629)
- Domenico Ginnasi, 1630-1639 (also Cardinal-bishop of Palestrina 1626-1629 and Porto 1629-1630)
- Carlo I de Medici, 1652-1666 (also Cardinal-bishop of Sabina 1645, Frascati 1645-1652 and Porto 1652)
- Cesare Facchinetti, 1680-1683 (also Cardinal-bishop of Palestrina 1672-1679 and Porto 1679-1680)
- Alderano Cybo, 1687-1700 (also Cardinal-bishop of Palestrina 1679-1680, Frascati 1680-1683 and Porto 1683-1687)
- Nicola Acciaoiuli, 1715-1719 (also Cardinal-bishop of Frascati 1693-1701 and Porto 1700-1715)
- Pietro Ottoboni, 1738-1740 (also Cardinal-bishop of Sabina 1725-1730, Frascati 1730-1734 and Porto 1734-1738)
- Tommaso Ruffo, 1740-1753 (also Cardinal-bishop of Palestrina 1726-1738 and Porto 1738-1740)
- Pierluigi Carafa, 1753-1755 (also Cardinal-bishop of Albano 1740-1751 and Porto 1751-1753)
- Giuseppe Spinelli, 1761-1763 (also Cardinal-bishop of Palestrina 1753-1759 and Porto 1759-1761)
- Henry Stuart, 1803-1807 (also Cardinal-bishop of Frascati 1761-1803)
- Alessandro Mattei, 1814-1820 (also Cardinal-bishop of Palestrina 1800-1809 and Porto 1809-1814)
- Bartolomeo Pacca, 1830-1844 (also Cardinal-bishop of Frascati 1818-1821 and Porto 1821-1830)
- Vincenzo Macchi, 1847-1860 (also Cardinal-bishop of Palestrina 1840-1844 and Porto 1844-1847)
- Mario Mattei, 1860-1870 (also Cardinal-bishop of Frascati 1844-1854 and Porto 1854-1860)
- Camillo di Pietro, 1878-1884 (also Cardinal-bishop of Albano 1867-1877 and Porto 1877-1878)
- Carlo Sacconi, 1884-1889 (also Cardinal-bishop of Palestrina 1870-1878 and Porto 1878-1884)
- Serafino Vannutelli, 1913-1915 (also Cardinal-bishop of Frascati 1893-1904 and Porto 1903-1915)
Bishops of Ostia' (since 1915) - Luigi Traglia, 1974-1977 (also Cardinal-bishop of Albano 1972-1977)
- Agnelo Rossi, 1986-1993, (also Cardinal-bishop of Sabina 1984-1995)
- Joseph II Ratzinger 2002-2005 (also Cardinal-bishop of Velletri 1993-2005; became Pope Benedict XVI)
- Angelo Sodano, since 2005 (also Cardinal-bishop of Albano since 1994)
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