Agnus ()
was an ancient city and bishopric in Roman Egypt and remains a Latin Catholic
titular see
A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular metropolitan" (highest rank), "titular archbish ...
.
Its modern location in present
Egypt
Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...
is unclear.
History
Agnus was important enough in the late
Roman province
The Roman provinces (Latin: ''provincia'', pl. ''provinciae'') were the administrative regions of Ancient Rome outside Roman Italy that were controlled by the Romans under the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire. Each province was rule ...
of
Aegyptus Primus
, conventional_long_name = Roman Egypt
, common_name = Egypt
, subdivision = Province
, nation = the Roman Empire
, era = Late antiquity
, capital = Alexandria
, title_leader = Praefectus Augustalis
, image_map = Roman E ...
to be one of the many
suffragan
A suffragan bishop is a type of bishop in some Christian denominations.
In the Anglican Communion, a suffragan bishop is a bishop who is subordinate to a metropolitan bishop or diocesan bishop (bishop ordinary) and so is not normally jurisdictiona ...
of the Metropolitan (becoming Patriarchate) of capital Alexandria, yet was to fade.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as a Latin Catholic
titular bishopric
A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular metropolitan" (highest rank), "titular archbish ...
.
It is vacant since decades, having had the following incumbents of the lowest (episcopal) rank :
*
Havryil Blazhovskyi
Havryil Heorhiy Blazhovskyi, Order of Saint Basil the Great, O.S.B.M. (born as Juraj Mankovič; uk, Гавриїл Георгій Блажовський, hu, Gábor György Blazsovszky, sk, Gabriel Juraj Blažovsky, c. 1705 – 20 December ...
,
O.S.B.M.
The Order of Saint Basil the Great ( uk, Чин Святого Василія Великого, translit=Chyn Sviatoho Vasyliia Velykoho; la, Ordo Sancti Basilii Magni, abbreviated OSBM), also known as the Basilian Order of Saint Josaphat, is ...
(1738.09.12 – 1742.12.20)
* Richard Patrick Smith (1837.02.21 – 1845.05.28) (later Archbishop*)
* Thomas John Feeney,
S.J. (1951.05.10 – 1955.09.09)
* Paul Nguyễn Văn Bình (1955.09.20 – 1960.11.24) (later Archbishop*)
* Michel-Louis Vial (1961.02.08 – 1963.12.17)
Source and External links
GCatholic with titular incumbent bio links
References
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Catholic titular sees in Africa