Titular diocese of Patara
The diocese of Patara ( Latin Dioecesis Patarensis ) is a titular diocese of the Roman Catholic Church .
It goes back to an earlier diocese of the ancient city of Patara in the Lycia region of Asia Minor in the southwest of today's Turkey, which belonged to the ecclesiastical province of Myra .
| Titular Bishops of Patara | ||||
| No. | Surname | Office | from | to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Giuseppe Fonseca OP | Auxiliary Bishop in Évora ( Portugal ) | May 7, 1714 | |
| 2 | Andreas de Rossi OTheat | August 7, 1741 | ||
| 3 | Franciszek Podkański SJ | Auxiliary Bishop in Krakow ( Poland ) | July 23, 1753 | July 11, 1789 |
| 4th | Marton Görgey | Auxiliary Bishop in Gran ( Hungary ) | September 24, 1804 | 23 August 1807 |
| 5 | Józef Gabriel Gembart SJ | Auxiliary Bishop in Gnesen (Poland) | September 26, 1814 | December 30, 1821 |
| 6th | Giuseppe Novella OFM | Coadjutor Apostolic Vicar of Houkouang ( China ) | May 22, 1847 | February 26, 1872 |
| 7th | Angelo Bersani-Dossena | Coadjutor Bishop of Lodi ( Italy ) | March 30, 1875 | June 12, 1887 |
| 8th | Luigi M. Cannavò OFMCap (Luigi M. Cannavo) | Bishop emeritus of Crete ( Greece ) | May 10, 1889 | 1907 |
| 9 | Nykyta Budka | Apostolic Exarch of Canada ( Canada ) | July 15, 1912 | October 1, 1949 |
| 10 | Vincenzo Maria Jacono | Bishop emeritus of Nicastro (Italy) | January 18, 1961 | April 20, 1971 |
| 11 | Ivan Choma | Rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University of St. Clement in Rome (Italy) | February 22, 1996 | February 3, 2006 |
| 12 | Jaime Spengler OFM | Auxiliary Bishop in Porto Alegre ( Brazil ) | November 10, 2010 | 18th September 2013 |
| 13 | Giovanni Battista Piccioli | Auxiliary Bishop in Guayaquil ( Ecuador ) | October 26, 2013 | |
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)