Titular diocese of Britonia
Britonia is a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church . The name is derived from the historical region of Britonia .
It goes back to an earlier diocese in Galicia in northwestern Spain, which was assigned as a suffragan diocese to the ecclesiastical province of Braga and from which the current diocese of the city of Mondoñedo arose.
| Titular Bishops of Britonia | ||||
| No. | Surname | Office | from | to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eugene O'Callaghan | Bishop Emeritus of Clogher ( Ireland ) | November 28, 1969 | January 26, 1971 |
| 2 | John Brewer | Auxiliary bishop in Shrewsbury ( United Kingdom ) | May 31, 1971 | 17th November 1983 |
| 3 | Edward Joseph O'Donnell | Auxiliary Bishop in Saint Louis ( USA ) | December 6, 1983 | November 8, 1994 |
| 4th | Paweł Cieślik | Auxiliary Bishop in Koszalin-Kołobrzeg ( Poland ) | 3rd December 1994 | |
See also
Web links
- Entry on Britonia on catholic-hierarchy.org
- Apostolic Succession - Titular Seats
- Entry on gcatholic.org (English)
Remarks
- ↑ On Britonia as a late antique name for a region of Galicia probably inhabited by British immigrants, see John T. Koch (Ed.): Celtic culture. A historical encyclopedia . ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara 2006, ISBN 1851094407 , p. 291 ( excerpt from Google Books ).