Titular diocese of Acalissus

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Acalissus ( Italian : Acalisso ) is a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church .

It goes back to an earlier diocese of the ancient city of Akalissos in the Lycia region of Asia Minor , which belonged to the ecclesiastical province of Myra .

Titular Bishops of Acalissus
No. Surname Office from to
1 Louis-Michel-François Tardy CSSp Vicar Apostolic of Gabon ( French Equatorial Africa ) December 18, 1925 January 28, 1947
2 Thomas Francis Markham Auxiliary bishop in Boston ( Massachusetts ) ( United States ) July 18, 1950 July 9, 1952
3 Domingos da Apresentação Fernandes Auxiliary Bishop in Aveiro ( Portugal ) December 13, 1952 August 11, 1958
4th Benigno Chiriboga SJ Auxiliary Bishop in Quito ( Ecuador ) November 15, 1958 5th December 1963
5 Ivan Ljavinec Apostolic Exarch of the Czech Republic ( Czech Republic ) January 18, 1996 December 9, 2012
6th Joseph Tran Van Toan Auxiliary Bishop in Long Xuyên ( Vietnam ) 5th April 2014 August 25, 2017
7th Thanh Thai Nguyen Auxiliary Bishop in Orange in California (United States) October 6, 2017

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