Titular diocese of Tigias
Tigias ( Italian : Tigia ) is a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church .
It goes back to a lost bishopric of the ancient city of Tigias in the Roman province of Africa proconsularis (later Byzacena ) in what is now Tunisia.
| Titular Bishops of Tigias | ||||
| No. | Surname | Office | from | to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Giovanni Lucato SDB | Vicar Apostolic of Derna ( Libya ) | September 13, 1939 | June 21, 1948 |
| 2 | George Andrew Beck AA | Coadjutor Bishop of Brentwood ( United Kingdom ) | August 7, 1948 | January 23, 1951 |
| 3 | Wilhelm van Bekkum SVD | Vicar Apostolic of Ruteng ( Indonesia ) | March 8, 1951 | January 3, 1961 |
| 4th | Gerald Vincent McDevitt | Auxiliary Bishop in Philadelphia ( USA ) | June 22, 1962 | September 29, 1980 |
| 5 | Daniel Francis Walsh | Auxiliary Bishop in San Francisco (USA) | July 30, 1981 | June 9, 1987 |
| 6th | Francis Xavier DiLorenzo | Auxiliary Bishop in Scranton (USA) | January 26, 1988 | November 29, 1994 |
| 7th | Stanisław Padewski OFMCap | Auxiliary Bishop in Kamyanets-Podilskyi Auxiliary Bishop in Lemberg ( Ukraine ) |
April 13, 1995 | May 4, 2002 |
| 8th | Jean-Claude Hertzog | Auxiliary Bishop in Bordeaux ( France ) | October 24, 2002 | November 24, 2005 |
| 9 | Robert Francis Hennessey | Auxiliary Bishop in Boston (USA) | October 12, 2006 | |