Titular diocese of Apollonia

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Apollonia is a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church .

It goes back to a former bishop's seat in the ancient city of the same name in the Roman province of Macedonia or Epirus nova in today's Albania . The diocese belonged to the ecclesiastical province of Durrës .

Titular Bishops of Apollonia
No. Surname Office from to
1 Giulio Sabbatini SP March 20, 1726 March 8, 1745
2 Bernardus Bonaventura Bokenhemer OFM November 22, 1745
3 François de Pierre de Bernis Auxiliary Bishop in Albi ( France ) December 10, 1781 September 20, 1784
4th Sebastiano Alcaini CRS February 14, 1785 September 25, 1785
5 Fridericus Maria Molin September 26, 1785 August 24, 1807
6th James Whitfield
Titular Archbishop pro hac vice
Apostolic Administrator of Richmond
Koadjutorerzbischof of Baltimore ( Maryland , USA )
January 8, 1828 January 29, 1828
7th Thomas Joseph Braun OSB Vicar Apostolic of Wales District ( Great Britain ) June 5, 1840 September 29, 1850
8th Louis-Simon Faurie MEP Vicar Apostolic of Kuiceu ( China ) May 27, 1854 June 21, 1871
9 Joseph -Marie Laucaigne MEP Auxiliary Bishop in Japan
Auxiliary Bishop and Apostolic Administrator of Southern Japan
October 3, 1873 January 18, 1885
10 Alphonse Joseph Glorieux Vicar Apostolic Idaho (USA) October 7, 1884 August 25, 1893
11 Francesco Cenci OFMCap 17th September 1894
12 Antonio Alvaro y Ballano Auxiliary Bishop in Toledo ( Spain ) July 18, 1913 May 25, 1914
13 Pedro Segura y Sáenz Auxiliary Bishop in Valladolid (Spain) March 14, 1916 July 10, 1920
14th Johannes Arnoldus Hubertus Aerts MSC Vicar Apostolic of New Guinea Olandese ( Indonesia ) July 20, 1920 July 30, 1942
15th Pierre-Louis Genoud CSSp Bishop emeritus of Guadeloupe et Basse-Terre ( Guadeloupe , Antilles ) May 17, 1945 October 15, 1945
16 John Patrick Cody Auxiliary Bishop in Saint Louis ( Missouri USA) May 10, 1947 September 11, 1956
17th Franz Žak Coadjutor Bishop of St. Pölten ( Austria ) 4th December 1956 October 1, 1961
18th Giuseppe (Joseph) Caprio
Titular Archbishop pro hac vice
Curia Archbishop October 14, 1961 June 30, 1979
19th Vincenzo Cirrincione Auxiliary Bishop in Palermo ( Italy ) February 21, 1980 January 8, 1986
20th Jorge María Mejía
Titular Archbishop pro hac vice
Curia Archbishop March 20, 1986 February 21, 2001
21st Gilberto Jiménez Narváez Auxiliary Bishop in Medellín ( Colombia ) March 20, 2001 20th October 2015
22nd Claude Hamelin Auxiliary Bishop in Saint-Jean-Longueuil ( Canada ) December 22, 2015 5th November 2019
23 Antonio Crameri SSC Auxiliary Bishop in Guayaquil ( Ecuador ) 20th December 2019

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