Titular diocese of Nept
Nept is a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church .
It goes back to an earlier diocese of the ancient city of the same name in the Roman province of Byzacena or Africa proconsularis in the Sahel region of Tunisia . In 1933 the diocese, which had disappeared in the course of Islamic expansion, was restored as the titular seat and was first awarded in 1943.
| Titular Bishops of Nept | ||||
| No. | Surname | Office | from | to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thomas Hughes SMA | Apostolic Prefect of the Apostolic Prefecture Kaduna ( Nigeria ) | January 12, 1943 | April 18, 1950 |
| 2 | Aloysius Haene SMB | Apostolic Vicar of the Apostolic Vicariate Fort Victoria ( Southern Rhodesia ) | June 25, 1950 | January 1, 1955 |
| 3 | Edmund Joseph Reilly | Auxiliary Bishop in Brooklyn ( United States ) | March 15, 1955 | 3rd November 1958 |
| 4th | Custódio Alvim Pereira | Auxiliary Bishop in Lourenço Marques ( Mozambique ) | December 20, 1958 | 3rd August 1962 |
| 5 | Igino Eugenio Cardinale | Apostolic Delegate and later Apostolic Nuncio | 4th October 1963 | March 24, 1983 |
| 6th | Camillo Ruini | Auxiliary Bishop in Reggio Emilia-Guastalla ( Italy ) | May 16, 1983 | June 28, 1991 |
| 7th | Michael Louis Fitzgerald MAfr | Curia Bishop and later Apostolic Nuncio | December 16, 1991 | 5th October 2019 |
| 8th | Ignacio Damián Medina | Auxiliary Bishop in Lomas de Zamora ( Argentina ) | November 26, 2019 | |