Titular diocese of Phoba

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Phoba ( Italian : Foba ) 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 Asia or in late antiquity Phrygia Pacatiana in what is now western Turkey . The diocese belonged to the ecclesiastical province of Laodicea ad Lycum .

Titular Bishops of Phoba
No. Surname Office from to
1 Bernard Cornelius O'Riley Vicar Apostolic of the Cape of Good Hope, Western District ( Union of South Africa ) July 15, 1925 July 21, 1956
2 José Félix Pintado Blasco SDS November 13, 1958 - August 17, 1963 Vicar Apostolic Coadjutor of Méndez , August 17, 1963 - January 24, 1981 Vicar Apostolic of Méndez ( Ecuador ) November 13, 1958 November 19, 1987

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