Titular diocese of Lydda
Lydda is a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church .
It goes back to a lost bishopric of the ancient city of Lydda, today Lod in Israel , which belonged to the ecclesiastical province of Caesarea .
| Titular Bishops of Lydda | ||||
| No. | Surname | Office | from | to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Benedikt Siebenhirter OSB | Auxiliary Bishop in Passau ( Germany ) | November 20, 1452 | May 10, 1458 |
| 2 | Nicolaus de Braciano , OSA | April 29, 1504 | 1509 | |
| 3 | Hermanus Nigenbroch , OP | November 7, 1509 | 1511 | |
| 4th | Petrus Antonii | July 18, 1511 | 1515 | |
| 5 | Heinrich von Hattingen OCarm | Auxiliary Bishop in Minden (Germany) | December 15, 1515 | 1519 |
| 6th | Giovanni Brainfort , OSB | February 26, 1517 | 1521 | |
| 7th | Thomas Bele | June 7, 1521 | 1524 | |
| 8th | Pompey de Musachis | May 11, 1524 | ||
| 9 | Marcus Tettinger | Auxiliary Bishop in Basel (Germany) | December 21, 1568 | 1599 |
| 10 | Georg Scultetus | Auxiliary Bishop in Breslau (Bohemia) | 1603 | September 17, 1613 |
| 11 | Franz Weinhart | Auxiliary Bishop in Regensburg (Germany) | February 26, 1663 | June 22, 1686 |
| 12 | Francisco Varo , OP | February 5, 1687 | - | |
| 13 | Giovanni Bortone | January 1, 1728 | July 22, 1729 | |
| 14th | Giovanni Battista Bruni (Filippo di Santa Caterina) | Auxiliary Bishop in Sabina (Italy) | August 5, 1765 | September 21, 1771 |
| 15th | Johann Baptist Joseph Göbel | Auxiliary Bishop in Basel ( Switzerland ) | February 29, 1772 | November 7, 1793 |
| 16 | Anselmo Basilici | Coadjutor Bishop of Sabina ( Italy ) | December 19, 1814 | May 25, 1818 |
| 17th | Robert Gradwell | Coadjutor - Vicar Apostolic of London District ( England ) | June 17, 1828 | March 15, 1833 |
| 18th | Henri Monnier | Auxiliary Bishop in Cambrai ( France ) | February 23, 1872 | December 1, 1916 |
| 19th | Bernard Nicholas Ward | Apostolic Administrator, Brentwood, England | March 22, 1917 | July 20, 1917 |
| 20th | Patrice Alexandre Chiasson CIM | Vicar Apostolic of Golfe St-Laurent ( New Brunswick , Canada ) | July 27, 1917 | September 9, 1920 |
| 21st | Michele Cerrati | September 15, 1920 | February 21, 1925 | |
| 22nd | John J. Monaghan | Bishop Emeritus of Wilmington ( Delaware , USA ) | July 10, 1925 | January 7, 1935 |
| 23 | William Richard Griffin | Auxiliary Bishop of La Crosse ( Wisconsin , USA) | March 9, 1935 | March 18, 1944 |
| 24 | Girolamo Bartolomeo Bortignon OFMCap | Apostolic Administrator of Belluno-Feltre (Italy) | April 4, 1944 | September 9, 1945 |
| 25th | Lawrence Shehan | Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore ( Maryland , USA) | November 17, 1945 | August 25, 1953 |
| 26th | Frédéric Duc | Bishop emeritus of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne (France) | February 11, 1954 | December 10, 1970 |
| 27 | Marcelino Sérgio Bicego OFMCap | Prelate of Carolina ( Brazil ) | August 6, 1971 | May 26, 1978 |
| 28 | Jean-Baptiste Gourion OSB | Auxiliary Bishop in Jerusalem ( Palestine ) ( Israel ) | August 14, 2003 | June 23, 2005 |
| 29 | William Hanna Shomali | Auxiliary Bishop in Jerusalem (Palestine) (Israel) | March 31, 2010 | |