Map of the Diocese of Egypt in antiquity
The diocese of Antipirgo ( la, Dioecesis Antipyrgensis, link=no) is a suppressed and
titular see of the
Roman Catholic Church. The
Roman town of Antipirgo, is identifiable with
Tobruch in today's
Libya, but during the
Roman Empire it was in the
Roman province of ''Creta and Cyrene'' and then in
late antiquity Libya Inferior
Marmarica (Greek Μαρμαρική) in ancient geography was a littoral area in Ancient Libya, located between ''Cyrenaica'' and ''Aegyptus''. It corresponds to what is now the Libya and Egypt frontier, including the towns of Bomba (ancient '' ...
(Marmarica), and the
bishopric was suffragan to the of
Darnis.
Of this
ancient diocese only one
bishop, Emiliano, is known; he was among the bishops who attended the
Second Council of Constantinople in 553. Today Antipirgo survives as a
titular bishopric, and the seat is vacant since March 6, 1969.
['' Annuario Pontificio'' 2013, (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013) , p. 834.]
Known Bishops
* Emiliano (
fl.
''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...
553)
*
Luigi Ermenegildo Ricci, (1922–1931)
* John Chang Pi-te (1932–1946)
*
Riccardo Ramos de Castro Vilela (1946–1958)
* Wilhelm Tuschen (1958–1961)
*
Myles McKeon
Myles McKeon (3 April 1919 – 2 May 2016) was an Irish-born Australian bishop who was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Bunbury.
(1962–1969)
References
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Roman towns and cities
Catholic titular sees in Africa
