Titular diocese of Cucusus

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Cucusus (Latin: Dioecesis Cucusena) is a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church .

It goes back to an earlier diocese of the ancient city of Kukusos in the Asia Minor region of Cataonia on the border of Cappadocia and Armenia , today Göksun in eastern Turkey . It belonged to the ecclesiastical province of Melitene .

Titular Bishops of Cucusus
No. Surname Office from to
1 Miguel Navarro OFM Vicar Apostolic of Honan ( China ) April 8, 1856 September 9, 1877
2 Giovanni Giacomo Jonckau Coadjutor Bishop of Vancouver Island ( Canada ) April 17, 1883 July 29, 1888
3 Ludwig Wahl Apostolic Prefect of Meissen ( Germany ) July 11, 1890 June 6, 1905
4th Nicasio Arellano OP Vicar Apostolic of East Tonking ( French Indochina , now Vietnam ) April 11, 1906 January 5, 1927
5 Sergio the Abrahamian Auxiliary Bishop in Rome ( Italy ) June 13, 1933 January 15, 1938
6th Constantino Gómez Villa OFMCap Vicar Apostolic of Caroní ( Venezuela ) July 14, 1938 March 22, 1981

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