Titular diocese of Clypia

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Clypia ( Italian : Clipia ) is a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church .

It goes back to a former bishop's seat in the ancient city of the same name in the Roman province of Zeugitana or Africa proconsularis in what is now northern Tunisia . He belonged to the ecclesiastical province of Carthage .

Titular Bishops of Clypia
No. Surname Office from to
1 Melchior Chang K'o-hing (Melchior Zhang Kexing) Coadjutor Bishop of Siwantze ( People's Republic of China ) November 3, 1949 November 24, 1951
2 José Damase Laberge OFM Vicar Apostolic of San José de Amazonas ( Peru ) 3rd July 1955 December 25, 1968
3 Ernesto Alvarez Alvarez SDB
Titular Archbishop pro hac vice
Coadjutor Archbishop of Cuenca ( Ecuador ) May 1, 1970 April 21, 1971
4th Árpád Fábián OPraem Apostolic Administrator of Szombathely ( Hungary ) February 8, 1972 7th January 1975
5 Peter Nettekoven Auxiliary Bishop in Cologne ( Germany ) March 17, 1975 April 23, 1975
6th Amédée Wilfrid Proulx Auxiliary Bishop in Portland ( USA ) 16th September 1975 November 22, 1993
7th Józef Szamocki Auxiliary Bishop in Toruń ( Poland ) April 20, 2000

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