Titular diocese of Lagania
Lagania is a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church .
It goes back to an earlier diocese of the ancient city of the same name, today Beypazarı in the province of Ankara in Turkey, in the Roman province of Galatia in today's central Turkey . The diocese belonged to the ecclesiastical province of Ancyra .
| Titular Bishops of Lagania | ||||
| No. | Surname | Office | from | to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Franz Joachim Imperial Knight Schmid von Altenstadt | Auxiliary Bishop in Regensburg ( Germany ) | December 20, 1741 | September 10, 1753 |
| 2 | António Joaquim Torrão | Auxiliary Bishop in Évora ( Portugal ) | March 8, 1773 | |
| 3 | Konstanty Wincenty Plejewski | Auxiliary Bishop in Płock ( Poland ) | February 8, 1824 | |
| 4th | William Riddell | Apostolic Koadjutorvikar , Vicar Apostolic of Northern District ( UK ) | December 22, 1843 | November 2, 1847 |
| 5 | Martin John Spalding | Koadjutor the Bishop of Louisville ( Kentucky ) | May 9, 1848 | February 11, 1850 |
| 6th | Lorenzo Biancheri CM | Apostolic Coadjutor Vicar, Apostolic Vicar of Abyssinia ( Abyssinia ) | June 28, 1853 | September 11, 1864 |
| 7th | Conrad Abel's CICM | Vicar Apostolic of Eastern Mongolia ( China ) | July 5, 1897 | February 4, 1942 |
| 8th | Ivan Dimitrov Garufalov CR | Apostolic Exarch of Sofia ( Bulgaria ) | July 6, 1942 | August 7, 1951 |
| 9 | Xavier Geeraerts MAfr | Vicar Apostolic of Bukavu ( Democratic Republic of the Congo ) | January 10, 1952 | February 23, 1971 |
See also
Web links
- Entry on Lagania (titular lake) on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on October 30, 2014.