Titular bishopric of Antandrus

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Coordinates: 39 ° 34 ′ 14 ″  N , 26 ° 47 ′ 21 ″  E

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Antandrus ( Italian : Antandro ) is a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church .

It goes back to the former bishop's seat in the ancient city of Antandros in the Roman province of Asia on the coast of the Troas near today's Altinoluk . It belonged to the ecclesiastical province of Ephesus .


Titular Bishops of Antandrus
No. Surname Office from to
1 Georg Weig SVD Vicar Apostolic of Tsingtao ( Republic of China ) June 15, 1928 October 3, 1941
2 Jean-Baptiste Claudel CSsR Vicar Apostolic of Reyes ( Bolivia ) July 14, 1943 December 12, 1955
3 Léon-Arthur-Auguste Elchinger Coadjutor Bishop of Strasbourg ( France ) October 26, 1957 December 30, 1966

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