Titular bishopric Achantus
Achantus ( Italian : Acanto ) is a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church .
It goes back to an earlier diocese of the ancient city of Akanthos in Macedonia on the Chalkidiki peninsula in the north of today's Greece . The diocese belonged to the ecclesiastical province of Thessalonica .
| Titular Bishops of Achantus | ||||
| No. | Surname | Office | from | to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bogusław Korwin Gosiewski | Auxiliary Bishop in Vilnius ( Poland-Lithuania ) | April 20, 1722 | January 29, 1725 |
| 2 | Raphael Tuki | April 15, 1761 | January 22, 1763 | |
| 3 | William Gibson | Vicar Apostolic of the Northern District ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ) | September 10, 1790 | June 2, 1821 |
| 4th | St. Pierre-Rose-Ursule Dumoulin-Borie MEP | Apostolic Koadjutorvikar of Westtonking / Vicar Apostolic of Westtonking ( Vietnam ) | January 30, 1836 | November 24, 1838 |
| 5 | Pierre-André Retord MEP | Vicar Apostolic of Westtonking ( Vietnam ) | November 24, 1838 | October 22, 1858 |
| 6th | Joseph-Simon Theurel MEP | Coadjutor Apostolic Vicar of Westtonking / Vicar Apostolic of Westtonking (Vietnam) | 1859 | November 3, 1868 |
| 7th | Hugh Conway | Coadjutor Bishop of Killala (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) | November 21, 1871 | June 9, 1873 |
| 8th | Giovanni Timoleone Raimondi PIME | Vicar Apostolic of Hong Kong ( Hong Kong ) | November 17, 1874 | September 27, 1894 |
| 9 | John Joseph Clancy | Coadjutor Bishop of Elphin (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) | January 12, 1895 | February 8, 1895 |
| 10 | Pio Giuseppe Passerini PIME | Vicar Apostolic of South Shaanxi ( China ) | March 29, 1895 | April 16, 1918 |
| 11 | Władysław Paweł Krynicki | Auxiliary Bishop in Włocławek ( Second Polish Republic ) | July 29, 1918 | November 21, 1927 |