Titular diocese of Limyra
Limyra is a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church .
It goes back to the ancient and Byzantine Diocese of the city Limyra in Asia Minor landscape Lycia in Turkey today.
| Titular Bishops of Limyra | ||||
| No. | Surname | Office | from | to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | João Batista Multedi de Santa Teresa OCD | Vicar Apostolic of Verapoly ( India ) | February 1, 1714 | April 6, 1750 |
| 2 | Antonio Leli | Auxiliary Bishop in Sabina ( Italy ) | December 16, 1771 | December 1779 |
| 3 | Adam Korwin Kossakowski SJ | Auxiliary Bishop in Inflanty (Livonia) / Auxiliary Bishop in Vilnius ( Poland-Lithuania ) | June 1, 1795 | May 4, 1828 |
| 4th | James Gillies | Vicar Apostolic of Eastern District ( Scotland ) | July 28, 1837 | February 24, 1864 |
| 5 | Manuel Ulloa y Calvo | Coadjutor Bishop in Leon ( Nicaragua ) | September 25, 1865 | September 20, 1867 |
| 6th | Calisto Clavio | Bishop emeritus of La Paz ( Peru ) | May 4, 1874 | |
| 7th | Stanislas Henri Verjus MSC | Coadjutor Vicar of New Guinea ( Papua New Guinea ) | April 8, 1889 | November 13, 1892 |
| 8th | Alexandre Cardot MEP | Vicar Apostolic of Southern Burma ( Burma ) | March 21, 1893 | October 18, 1925 |
| 9 | Alexander Frison | Apostolic Administrator of Odessa ( Ukraine ) | May 10, 1926 | June 20, 1937 |
| 10 | Joaquim Rafael Maria d'Assunção Pitinho OFM | em. Bishop of Santiago de Cabo Verde ( Cape Verde ) | May 5, 1940 | November 22, 1959 |
| 11 | Alfons Karl Kempf | Auxiliary Bishop in Würzburg ( Germany ) | December 27, 1959 | November 8, 1999 |
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lexicon of Knowledge about the Jesuits in the Polish and Lithuanian Countries, 1564-1995 , Wydział Filozoficzny Towarzystwa Jezusowego, Krakau 1996 (Polish)
Web links
- Entry on Limyra on catholic-hierarchy.org
- Entry on gcatholic.org (English)