Titular diocese of Batnae

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Batnae ( Italian : Batne ) is a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church .

It goes back to a lost bishopric in the ancient city of the same name (today Suruç ), in the Roman province of Mesopotamia or Osrhoene in Turkey . He belonged to the ecclesiastical province of Edessa .

Titular Bishops of Batnae
No. Surname Office from to
1 Gabriel Naamo Apostolic Administrator of Gazireh ( Turkey ) September 30, 1938 June 28, 1957
2 Simeon Kokov OFMCap (Simeon Kokoff) Apostolic Administrator of Sofia and Plovdiv ( People's Republic of Bulgaria ) April 20, 1958 July 11, 1974

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