Titular diocese of Antiphrae
Antiphrae ( Italian : Antifre ) is a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church .
It goes back to a submerged bishopric of the ancient city of Antiphrai (near today's Marina el-Alamein ) on the north coast of Egypt , which was inferior in the Roman province of Creta et Cyrene or in late antiquity Libya . The bishopric was assigned to the ecclesiastical province of Darnis .
| Titular Bishops of Antiphrae | ||||
| No. | Surname | Office | from | to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Louis-Marie-Henri-Joseph Bigolet MEP | Apostolic Koadjutorvikar of West Tonkin ( French Indochina ) | June 27, 1911 | May 23, 1923 |
| 2 | Louis-Nestor Renault | Apostolic Coadjutor Vicar of South Sichuan , Apostolic Vicar of Suifu ( China ) | April 29, 1924 | October 28, 1943 |
| 3 | Pietro Ermenegildo Focaccia OFM | Vicar Apostolic of Yütze (Republic of China) | March 9, 1944 | April 11, 1946 |
| 4th | André Sorin MSC | Vicar Apostolic of Port Moresby ( Papua New Guinea ) | June 13, 1946 | April 19, 1959 |
| 5 | John Joseph Maguire | Auxiliary Bishop in New York ( USA ) | May 16, 1959 | September 15, 1965 |