Titular diocese of Ionopolis
Ionopolis ( Italian : Gionopoli ) is a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church .
It goes back to a submerged diocese of the ancient and Byzantine city of Abonuteichos (later Ionopolis, now İnebolu) in the Paphlagonia region of Asia Minor on the Black Sea coast of today's Turkey, which was a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Gangra .
| Titular Bishops of Ionopolis | ||||
| No. | Surname | Office | from | to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wilhelm Hermann Ignaz Ferdinand Baron von Wolff-Metternich zu Gracht | Auxiliary Bishop in Münster ( Germany ) | September 16, 1720 | October 28, 1722 |
| 2 | Jan Karski | Auxiliary Bishop in Gnesen ( Poland-Lithuania ) | July 29, 1771 | 1784 |
| 3 | Wincenty Lipski | Auxiliary Bishop in Tiraspol ( Moldova ) | September 18, 1856 | December 13, 1875 |
| 4th |
James Gibbons Titular Archbishop pro hac vice |
Coadjutor Archbishop of Baltimore ( USA ) | May 20, 1877 | October 3, 1877 |
| 5 |
Francis Xavier Leray Titular Archbishop pro hac vice |
Coadjutor Archbishop of New Orleans (USA) | September 30, 1879 | December 28, 1883 |
| 6th | Giacomo Daddi | Auxiliary Bishop in Palermo ( Italy ) | March 27, 1884 | |
| 7th | Andrea Cassato | Auxiliary Bishop in Otranto (Italy) | March 24, 1898 | 1913 |
| 8th | Henri Doulcet CP | June 3, 1913 | March 17, 1914 | |
| 9 | Joseph John Fox | Emeritus Bishop of Green Bay (USA) | November 7, 1914 | March 14, 1915 |
| 10 | Nicolás Gonzalez Pérez CMF | Vicar Apostolic of Fernando Poo ( Equatorial Guinea ) | August 24, 1918 | March 23, 1935 |
| 11 | Eugène-Louis-Marie Le Fer de la Motte | Bishop emeritus of Nantes ( France ) | July 8, 1935 | July 20, 1936 |
| 12 | Johann Baptist Dietz | Coadjutor Bishop of Fulda (Germany) | July 25, 1936 | April 10, 1939 |
| 13 | Maurice-Auguste-Eugène Foin | Auxiliary Bishop in Le Mans (France) | June 10, 1939 | July 10, 1948 |
| 14th | Hubert Joseph Paulissen SMA | Bishop emeritus of Kumasi ( Ghana ) | November 15, 1951 | August 12, 1966 |