Titular diocese of Lycopolis

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Lycopolis ( Italian : Licopoli ) was a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church .

It goes back to an ancient diocese in the city of Lykopolis on the western bank of the Nile in Middle Egypt (today Asyut ). The diocese of Lycopolis was a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Antinoë .

Titular Bishops of Lycopolis (hist.)
No. Surname Office from to
1 Tomasz Skotnicki Auxiliary Bishop in Kulm ( Poland ) October 1, 1685 December 10, 1700
2 Atanasio Esterriga Trajanáuregui Auxiliary Bishop in Toledo ( Spain ) November 26, 1703 July 23, 1712
3 Stefan Bogusław Rupniewski Auxiliary Bishop in Lviv ( Ukraine ) May 22, 1713 December 23, 1716
4th José Esquivel Castellejos OP Auxiliary Bishop in Seville (Spain) March 14, 1717 July 11, 1738
5 Ferdinando Romualdo Guiccioli March 10, 1741 April 5, 1745
6th Johann Friedrich von Lasser Auxiliary Bishop in Mainz ( Germany ) September 16, 1748 April 14, 1769
7th Joseph Paul Sedeler Auxiliary Bishop in Prague ( Bohemia ) September 11, 1775 September 4, 1776
8th Iovinus Fridericus Bystrzycki Auxiliary Bishop in Warsaw ( Poland ) ( Elekt ) died before the consecration January 8, 1821 July 11, 1821
9 Manuel Cayetano Muñoz Benavente Auxiliary Bishop in Seville (Spain) July 24, 1797 July 8, 1824
10 Anton Ferdinand Holtgreven Auxiliary Bishop in Paderborn (Germany) June 22, 1843 September 29, 1848
11 Ioannes Kraly Auxiliary Bishop in Zagreb ( Croatia ) November 16, 1854 1883
12 Antonio Tomas da Silva Leitão e Castro Prelate of Maputo ( Mozambique ) May 8, 1883 March 27, 1884
13 Franz Wilhelm Cramer Auxiliary Bishop in Münster (Germany) November 13, 1884 March 15, 1903
14th James Trobec Bishop Emeritus of Saint Cloud ( United States ) May 28, 1914 December 15, 1921
15th John Alexander Floersh Coadjutor Bishop of Louisville ( Kentucky , USA) February 6, 1923 July 26, 1924
16 Luis Antonio Castro Alvarez Auxiliary Bishop in Santiago de Chile ( Chile ) October 23, 1924 August 13, 1935
17th Joseph-Lucien Giray Bishop emeritus of Cahors ( France ) February 13, 1936 April 14, 1938
18th Paulus Rusch Apostolic Administrator of Innsbruck-Feldkirch ( Austria ) October 15, 1938 December 9, 1947

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