Titular diocese of Lerus
The diocese of Lerus ( Italian : Diocesi di Lero , Latin Dioecesis Leriensis ) is a titular diocese of the Roman Catholic Church .
It goes back to an earlier diocese on the island of Leros , one of the southern Sporades in the Aegean Sea, which belonged to the Roman province of Insulae in late antiquity . The diocese belonged to the ecclesiastical province of Rhodes .
| Titular Bishops of Lerus | ||||
| No. | Surname | Office | from | to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Louis-Marie Deveaux MEP | Apostolic Coadjutor Vicar of Hanoi ( Vietnam ) | February 15, 1745 | January 1, 1756 |
| 2 | Joseph Christian Franz zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein | Coadjutor Bishop of Breslau ( Prussia ) | August 3, 1789 | January 5, 1795 |
| 3 | Emanuel von Schimonsky | Auxiliary Bishop in Breslau (Prussia) | December 18, 1797 | May 3, 1824 |
| 4th | Vicenzo Annovazzi | Auxiliary Bishop in Civitavecchia ( Papal States ) | July 3, 1826 | February 15, 1838 |
| 5 | Crescencio Carrillo y Ancona | Coadjutor Bishop of Yucatán ( Mexico ) | March 27, 1884 | February 15, 1887 |
| 6th | Louis Couppé MSC | Apostolic Vicar of Neupommern ( German New Guinea , today Papua New Guinea ) | December 28, 1889 | December 18, 1925 |
| 7th | Enrico Pascal Valtorta PIME | Vicar Apostolic of Hong Kong ( Hong Kong , now China) | March 8, 1926 | April 11, 1946 |
| 8th | Emile-Arsène Blanchet | Bishop emeritus of Saint-Dié (France) | October 10, 1946 | May 10, 1960 |
| 9 |
Luigi Dadaglio Titular Archbishop pro hac vice |
Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop of the Curia |
October 28, 1961 | May 25, 1985 |