Titular diocese of Hierocaesarea
Hierocaesarea ( Italian : Gerocesarea ) is a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church .
It goes back to an earlier diocese in the ancient city of Hierokaisareia in the Lydia region of Asia Minor in western Turkey today. The diocese belonged to the ecclesiastical province of Sardis .
| Titular Bishops of Hierocaesarea | ||||
| No. | Surname | Office | from | to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Louis-Joseph de Châteauneuf de Rochebonne | Coadjutor Bishop of Carcassonne ( Kingdom of France ) | March 4, 1720 | March 1, 1722 |
| 2 | Santiago Hernández OP | Apostolic Vicar of Osttonking ( Empire Vietnam ) | August 13, 1757 | February 6, 1777 |
| 3 | Charles Berington | Coadjutor Apostolic Vicar and Vicar Apostolic of the Midland District ( Kingdom of Great Britain ) | June 2, 1786 | June 8, 1798 |
| 4th | Gregory Stapleton | Vicar Apostolic of the Midland District ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ) | November 7, 1800 | May 23, 1802 |
| 5 | Antonio Maria Trigona | Auxiliary Bishop in Catania ( Kingdom of the Two Sicilies ) | March 31, 1806 | July 28, 1817 |
| 6th | José Maria Seguí OESA | Auxiliary Bishop in Manila ( Spanish East Indies ) | July 27, 1829 | July 5, 1830 |
| 7th | John Bede Polding OSB | Vicar Apostolic of New Holland and Van Diemens Land ( Australia ) | July 3, 1832 | April 5, 1842 |
| 8th | Luigi Bienna | Auxiliary Bishop in Otranto ( Kingdom of the Two Sicilies ) | April 21, 1845 | |
| 9 | Désiré-François-Xavier Van Camelbeke MEP | Apostolic Vicar of East Cochinchina ( Empire Vietnam / French Indochina ) | January 15, 1884 | November 9, 1901 |
| 10 | Alessandro Beniamino Zanecchia-Ginnetti OCD | June 9, 1902 | June 18, 1902 | |
| 11 | John Marie Laval | Auxiliary Bishop in New Orleans ( USA ) | September 11, 1911 | June 4, 1937 |
| 12 | Franz Justus Rarkowski SM | Military and field bishop of the German armed forces in the military ordinariate (Germany) | January 7, 1938 | February 9, 1950 |
| 13 | Timothy Phelim O'Shea OFMCap | Vicar Apostolic of Livingstone ( Northern Rhodesia / Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland ) | May 24, 1950 | April 25, 1959 |
| 14th | Ernesto de Paula | Bishop Emeritus of Piracicaba ( Brazil ) | January 9, 1960 | December 31, 1994 |