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{{more footnotes, date=July 2017 :''See Andropolis for namesakes'' Andropolis was an Ancient city and former bishopric in
Roman Egypt , 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 ...
, and is now 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 ...
.


History

Andropolis, identified with modern Kherbeta in present Egypt, was important enough in the
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 become a
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 its Metropolitan, the
patriarchate of Alexandria The Patriarch of Alexandria is the archbishop of Alexandria, Egypt. Historically, this office has included the designation "pope" (etymologically "Father", like "Abbot"). The Alexandrian episcopate was revered as one of the three major episco ...
, but the see faded like most, plausibly at the advent of Islam. * Its only undisputedly documented ('Greek') bishop, Zoilus, participated in a council of Alexandria convoked by Patriarch Atanasius in 362 * A Coptic bishop named Jacob allegedly occupied the see according to Klaas A. Worp.


Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin
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 ...
of Andropolis (Latin) / Andropoli (Curiate Italian) / Andropolitan(us) (Latin adjective). It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank : * Henri Joseph Marius Piérard,
Assumptionists The Assumptionists, officialy named the Congregation of the Augustinians of the Assumption ( la, Congregatio Augustinianorum ab Assumptione) abbreviated AA,is a Catholic clerical religious congregation of Pontifical Right for men (priests and b ...
(A.A.) (born Belgium) (1938.02.09 – 1959.11.10) as
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of Beni in Belgian Congo (
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) (1938.02.09 – 1959.11.10); previously only
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of Mission sui iuris of Beni in Belgian Congo (Congo-Kinshasa) (1934 – (see) promoted 1938.02.09); later 'first' Bishop of (promoted see) Beni in Congo (Congo-Kinshasa) (1959.11.10 – 1960.07.07), (see) restyled Bishop of
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(now Butembo-Beni) (1960.07.07 – retired 1966.05.17), emeritate as Titular Bishop of Molicunza (1966.05.17 – retired 1973.04.27), died 1975 * Thomas Francis Maloney (1960.01.02 – death 1962.09.10) as Auxiliary Bishop of
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(Rhode Island, USA) (1960.01.02 – 1962.09.10) * Enrique Bolaños Quesada (1962.12.06 – 1970.03.06) as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Alajuela (
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) (1962.12.06 – 1970.03.06), also Secretary General of Episcopal Conference of Costa Rica (1963 – 1970); next succeeded as Bishop of Alajuela (1970.03.06 – retired 1980.12.13), died 1992 * Youhanna Golta (1986.07.27 – ...), first as Auxiliary Bishop of
Alexandria of the Copts The Coptic Catholic Patriarchate of Alexandria is the Patriarchal and only Metropolitan see of the head of the Eastern '' sui iuris'' Coptic Catholic Church, a particular Church in the Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See, which f ...
(Egypt) (1986.07.27 – 1997), then as Bishop of Curia of the
Coptic Catholic Patriarchate of Alexandria The Coptic Catholic Patriarchate of Alexandria is the Patriarchal and only Metropolitan see of the head of the Eastern ''sui iuris'' Coptic Catholic Church, a particular Church in the Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See, which foll ...
(1986.07.27 – ...).


See also

*
List of Catholic dioceses in Egypt The Catholic Church in Egypt is presently composed of an exempt Latin missionary jurisdiction and 14 Eastern Catholic (arch)eparchies (mainly the Coptic Catholic Patriarchate's province), but also yielded over 90 titular sees. Current dioceses ...


Sources and external links


GCatholic - (former &) titular see
; Bibliography - ecclesiastical * Pius Bonifacius Gams, ''Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae'', Leipzig 1931, p. 460 * Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus'', Paris 1740, vol. II, coll. 523-524 * Klaas A. Worp, ''A Checklist of Bishops in Byzantine Egypt (A.D. 325 - c. 750)'', in ''Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik'' 100 (1994) 283-318 (cfr. p. 296) * S. Pétridès, lemma 'Andron polis', in ''Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques'', vol. II, Paris 1914, coll. 1801-1802 Catholic titular sees in Africa