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The Diocese of Constantia (in Scythia) is a former bishopric and present Latin Catholic
titular see
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.
The diocese once had its episcopal see in present
Constanța
Constanța (, ; ; rup, Custantsa; bg, Кюстенджа, Kyustendzha, or bg, Констанца, Konstantsa, label=none; el, Κωνστάντζα, Kōnstántza, or el, Κωνστάντια, Kōnstántia, label=none; tr, Köstence), histo ...
(capital of the
Romania
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n part of
Dobruja
Dobruja or Dobrudja (; bg, Добруджа, Dobrudzha or ''Dobrudža''; ro, Dobrogea, or ; tr, Dobruca) is a historical region in the Balkans that has been divided since the 19th century between the territories of Bulgaria and Romania. I ...
region by the Black Sea), Constantia (in Scythia) in Latin, Κωνστάντια in Greek, which is Ancient Tomis, until the Byzantines renamed it. It faded.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored (late 19th century?) as
Titular archbishopric
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of Constantia antea Tomi in Latin or Costanza di Scizia in Curiate Italian, in 1925 renamed as Titular archbishopric of Constantia (Latin) or Costanza di Scizia (Italian)
In 1926 it was demoted as
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 Constantia in Latin or Costanza di Scizia in Italian), but in 1929 again promoted as Titular archbishopric and given the additional Latin name Tomi (after pre-Byzantine Tomis), and in 1933 renamed as Tomi in Latin, Costanza di Scizia or Tomi in Italian.
In 1990 renamed as Titular archbishopric of Constantia in Scythia (Latin), Costanza di Scizia or Tomi in Italian.
It is vacant, having had the following incumbents, all of (now fitting) intermediate (non-Metropolitan) archiepiscopal rank :
* John Baptist Salpointe (1894.01.21 – 1898.07.15)
* Nicolae Iosif Camilli,
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(O.F.M. Conv.) (1901.03.27 – 1904.08.30)
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(1962.10.13 – 1965.08.15)
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William Henry O'Connell
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Early life
William O'Connell wa ...
Scythia Minor
Scythia Minor or Lesser Scythia (Greek: , ) was a Roman province in late antiquity, corresponding to the lands between the Danube and the Black Sea, today's Dobruja divided between Romania and Bulgaria. It was detached from Moesia Inferior by t ...