Titular diocese of Nisyrus
Nisyrus ( Italian : Nisiro ) is a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church .
It goes back to an earlier diocese on the island of Nisyros , one of the Dodecanese in the eastern Aegean , which belonged to the Roman province of Asia or insulae in late antiquity . The diocese belonged to the ecclesiastical province of Rhodes .
| Titular Bishops of Nisyrus | ||||
| No. | Surname | Office | from | to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pedro Xague OP | Auxiliary Bishop in Cádiz ( Spain ) | September 4, 1560 | |
| 2 | Jerónimo Clavijo OP | Auxiliary Bishop in Cádiz (Spain) | April 28, 1564 | - |
| 3 | Franz Fellinger | Auxiliary Bishop in Jerusalem ( League of Nations Mandate for Palestine ) | February 26, 1929 | July 22, 1940 |
| 4th | Augusto Osvaldo Salinas Fuenzalida SSCC | Auxiliary Bishop in Santiago de Chile ( Chile ) | February 9, 1941 | August 3, 1950 |
| 5 | Elizeu Simoes Mendes | Auxiliary Bishop in Fortaleza ( Brazil ) | August 21, 1950 | September 19, 1953 |
| 6th | Carlos Maria Jurgens Byrne CSsR | Bishop of the Peruvian Military Ordinary ( Peru ) | 7th February 1954 | 17th December 1956 |
| 7th | Augusto Trujillo Arango | Auxiliary Bishop in Manizales ( Colombia ) | April 25, 1957 | March 31, 1960 |
| 8th | Auguste Joseph Gaudel | Bishop emeritus of Fréjus-Toulon ( France ) | September 1, 1960 | August 8, 1969 |