Titular diocese of Remesiana
Remesiana is a titular bishopric of both the Roman Catholic Church and the Serbian Orthodox Church .
The titular bishopric goes back to an earlier bishopric of the ancient city of the same name in the Roman province of Moesia superior or in late antiquity Dacia , today Bela Palanka in the Okrug Pirot in Serbia . The diocese belonged to the ecclesiastical province of Sardica .
| titular Catholic Bishops of Remesiana | ||||
| No. | Surname | Office | from | to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joseph-Marie Leray MSC | Apostolic Vicar of the Gilbert Islands ( Gilbert and Ellica Islands / German New Guinea ) | July 27, 1897 | October 17, 1929 |
| 2 | Federico Melendro Gutiérrez SJ | Vicar Apostolic of Anking ( Republic of China ) | February 14, 1930 | April 11, 1946 |
| 3 | Francisco Javier Ochoa Ullate OAR | Former Bishop of Kweiteh (Republic of China / People's Republic of China ) | December 11, 1947 | September 6, 1976 |
| 4th | Jacques Fihey |
Auxiliary Bishop in Marseille Bishop of the French Military Ordinary ( France ) |
May 31, 1977 | April 22, 1989 |
| 5 | Sylvester Donovan Ryan | Auxiliary Bishop in Los Angeles ( USA ) | 17th February 1990 | January 28, 1992 |
| 6th | Nicola de Angelis CFIC | Auxiliary Bishop in Toronto ( Canada ) | April 27, 1992 | December 28, 2002 |
| 7th | Francis Ronald Reiss | Auxiliary Bishop in Detroit (USA) | July 7, 2003 | |
| orthodox titular bishops of Remesiana | ||||
| No. | Surname | Office | from | to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andrej Ćilerdžić | Assistant to the Belgrade Patriarch Irinej | 2011 | 2014 |