Titular diocese of Ptolemais in Phenicia dei Maroniti
Ptolemais in Phenicia dei Maroniti ( Italian : Tolemaide di Fenicia dei Maroniti ) is a titular bishopric of the Catholic Church , which is awarded by the Pope to titular bishops from the Maronite Church united with Rome .
It goes back to a lost bishop's seat in the ancient city of Acre , which was in the Roman province of Syria Phoenice or in late antiquity Phoenice in today's Israel . The bishopric was assigned to the ecclesiastical province of Tire .
| Titular Bishops of Ptolemais in Phenicia dei Maroniti | ||||
| No. | Surname | Office | from | to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gregory II. Jousself-Sajour | November 13, 1856 | March 28, 1865 | |
| 2 | Luigi Giuseppe El-Khazen | February 23, 1919 | February 22, 1933 | |
| 3 | Camille Zaidan | Curia Bishop in the Maronite Patriarchate of Antioch ( Lebanon ) | August 13, 2011 | June 16, 2012 |
| 4th | Joseph Mouawad | Curia Bishop in the Maronite Patriarchate of Antioch (Lebanon) | June 16, 2012 | March 14, 2015 |
| 5 | Paul Abdel Sater | Curia Bishop in the Maronite Patriarchate of Antioch (Lebanon) | July 28, 2015 | June 15, 2019 |
| 6th | Antoine Aukar | Curia Bishop in the Maronite Patriarchate of Antioch (Lebanon) | June 15, 2019 | |