Titular Sinitis
The Diocese of Sinitis ( Italian diocesi di Siniti , Latin Dioecesis Sinitensis ) is a titular diocese of the Roman Catholic Church .
The city, located in North Africa , was an old Roman bishopric that went down in the 7th century with the Islamic expansion . It was in the Roman province of Numidia .
| Titular Bishops of Sinitis | ||||
| No. | Surname | Office | from | to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | James Grant | Vicar Apostolic of the Lowland District ( Great Britain ) | February 21, 1755 | December 3, 1778 |
| 2 | Giacomo Luigi Fontana MEP | Vicar Apostolic of Sichuan Vicar Apostolic of Huguang ( China ) |
May 9, 1817 | July 11, 1838 |
| 3 | Eugène-Jean-Claude-Joseph Desflèches MEP | Vicar Apostolic Coadjutor of Sichuan Vicar Apostolic of East Sichuan (China) |
December 18, 1840 | February 20, 1883 |
| 4th | Bernardo Caetani d'Aragona OSB | Coadjutor Bishop of San Severo ( Italy ) | August 9, 1883 | April 27, 1889 |
| 5 | Philippe-Prosper Augouard CSSp | Vicar Apostolic of the Upper Congo ( Congo ) | October 14, 1890 | November 30, 1915 |
| 6th |
Luis Mena Arroyo Titular Archbishop pro hac vice |
Coadjutor Archbishop of Chihuahua Auxiliary Bishop in Mexico ( Mexico ) |
September 1, 1964 | March 3, 2009 |
| 7th | Leslie Rogers Tomlinson | Auxiliary Bishop in Melbourne ( Australia ) | May 5, 2009 | 3rd February 2012 |
| 8th | Jan Piotrowski | Auxiliary Bishop in Tarnów ( Poland ) | December 14, 2013 | October 11, 2014 |
| 9 | Henryk Wejman | Auxiliary Bishop in Stettin-Cammin (Poland) | 22nd November 2014 | |