Theodosiopolis (in Arcadia) was an Ancient city and diocese in
Lower Egypt,
The town was the
seat of an ancient
bishopric
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History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associate ...
and is now a Latin Catholic
titular see
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.
Its modern site is Taha Al-Amidah, (Governorate of Minya) in northern
Egypt
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.
History
Theodosiopolis 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
Arcadia Aegypti
Arcadia or Arcadia Aegypti was a Late Roman province in northern Egypt. It was named for one of the reigning '' Augusti'' of the Roman Empire, Arcadius () of the Theodosian dynasty when it was created in the late 4th century. Its capital was Oxy ...
to be a
suffragan of its capital
Oxyrhynchus's Metropolitan Archbishopric,
[Joseph Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticæ: Or, The Antiquities of the Christian Church, and Other Works, of the Rev. Joseph Bingham, Volume 3(W. Straker, 1840) p 202.] but the bishopric was to fade with the city.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored 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 ...
around 1600 under the name Theodosia, but was renamed Theodosiopolis in 1925, and finally to Theodosiopolis in Arcadia (avoiding confusion with namesakes) in 1933.
It is vacant since decades, having had the following incumbents, first of the lowest (episcopal) rank, but since 1669 of the archiepiscopal (intermediary) rank :
* Titular Bishop Andrzej Wilczyński (1608.10.13 – 1625?)
* Titular Bishop Andrzej Gembicki (1628.01.10 – 1638.04.19)
* Titular Bishop Jan Madaliński,
Cistercians (O. Cist.) (1640.04.16 – ?)
* Titular Bishop Adrian Grodecki (1644.12.12 – ?)
* Titular Archbishop
Archbishop-elect Domenico de’ Marini (1669.12.02 – ?)
* Titular Archbishop Francesco Marini (1686.04.27 – ?)
* Titular Archbishop
Ulisse Giuseppe Gozzadini
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Early life
Gozzadini was born in Bologna and was of a patrician family. He was the son of Palatine Count Marcantonio Gozzadini ...
(1700.09.08 – 1709.04.15) (later Cardinal)
* Titular Archbishop Domenico Zauli (1709.05.06 – 1722.03.01)
* Titular Archbishop
Prospero Lambertini
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(1724.06.12 – 1727.01.20) (later
Pope Benedict XIV
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)
* Titular Archbishop Antonio Francesco Valenti (1727.01.20 – 1731.05.15)
* Titular Archbishop Joseph-Dominique d’Inguimbert, O. Cist. (1731.12.17 – 1735.05.11)
* Titular Archbishop
Filippo Carlo Spada (1738.12.19 – 1742.01.22), previously Bishop of
Pesaro (Italy) (1702.11.20 – 1738.12.19), later
Titular Latin Patriarch of Alexandria (1742.01.22 – death 1742.12.08)
* Titular Archbishop Michele Maria Vincentini (1742.05.25 – 1754.07.06)
* Titular Archbishop
Georgio Maria Lascaris (1754.06.22 – 1762.12.20), previously Titular Bishop of
Zenopolis (1741.04.17 – 1754.06.22), later
Titular Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem
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(1762.12.20 – 1795.12.11)
* Titular Archbishop
Scipione Borghese
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(1765.07.05 – 1770.09.10) (later Cardinal)
* Titular Archbishop
Giovanni Ottavio Manciforte Sperelli
Giovanni Ottavio Manciforte Sperelli (1730–1781) was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.
Biography
Giovanni Ottavio Manciforte Sperelli was born in Assisi on 23 February 1730, the son of Marquis Marcantonio Manciforte, governor of t ...
(1771.06.17 – 1780.12.11) (later Cardinal)
* Titular Archbishop
Ferdinando Maria Saluzzo (1784.06.25 – 1784.07.13) (later Cardinal)
* Titular Archbishop Simon Aichner (1904.06.28 – 1910.11.01)
* Titular Archbishop
Celso Benigno Luigi Costantini
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(剛恆毅) (1922.09.09 – 1953.01.12) (later Cardinal)
* Titular Archbishop Arrigo Pintonello (1953.11.04 – 1967.09.12)
Source and external links
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Specific
Catholic titular sees in Africa
Former Roman Catholic dioceses in Africa