Titular diocese of Attuda

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Attuda is a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church .

It goes back to an earlier diocese in the ancient city of Attuda of the same name in the region of Caria in Asia Minor (late ancient Roman province Phrygia Pacatiana ), which belonged to the ecclesiastical province of Hierapolis , today's Hisarköy in western Turkey .

Titular Bishops of Attuda
No. Surname Office from to
1 Máximo Fernández OP Vicar Apostolic of Central Tonking ( Vietnam ) February 12, 1898 August 12, 1924
2 Aloysius Chen Guo-di OFM (Aloysius Tchen Chao-t'ien) Vicar Apostolic of Fenyang ( China ) July 14, 1926 March 9, 1930
3 Pierre-Henri-Noël Gubbels, OFM Vicar Apostolic of Yichang (Republic of China) March 25, 1930 April 11, 1946
4th Johannes Baptist Lück SCI Vicar Apostolic of Aliwal ( South Africa ) March 13, 1947 January 11, 1951
5 Guillermo Escobar Velez Auxiliary Bishop in Antioquía ( Colombia ) March 7, 1952 April 1, 1955
6th Antônio Ferreira de Macedo CSsR Auxiliary Bishop in São Paulo ( Brazil ) April 20, 1955 June 22, 1964

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