[4] In addition to maintaining his pretensions, he worked as a psychiatrist at the Salerno Health Department and also ran his own private practice.
His immediate ancestors also worked in the medical industry; his father was a doctor in Italy's African colonies and his grandfather was a pharmacist.
[2] In full, he claimed the titles "Titular Emperor of Constantinople and the Greek East, King of the Hellenes, of Morea and of Epirus, Lord of the Aegean and of Cappadocia", and he points to a 1966 ruling by a court in the Salerno as proof of the authenticity of his genealogy.
Supposedly, Rogerio was responsible for erecting the Spirito Santo church, which still stands, in Casalsottano, a hamlet of the Italian comune San Mauro Cilento.
[7][8] Among the most damning evidence is Rogerio's clearly Italian (rather than Greek) first name, the unlikelihood of a potential imperial heir being kept as hostage in Italy and that there are no mentions of him in Byzantine records.