Titular diocese of Petra in Aegypto

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Petra in Aegypto ( Italian : Petra di Egitto ) is a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church .

It goes back to a former diocese in the Roman province of Aegyptus or Aegyptus Iovia in the western Nile Delta , which belonged to the ecclesiastical province of Alexandria .

Titular Bishops of Petra in Aegypto
No. Surname Office from to
1 Pietro de Villanova Castellacci March 26, 1855 17th September 1881
2 Girolamo Maria Gotti OCD Apostolic Internuntius
Curia Archbishop
March 22, 1892 March 19, 1916

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