Titular Archbishopric of Amorium

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Amorium ( Italian : Amorio ) is a titular archbishopric of the Roman Catholic Church .

It goes back to a submerged bishopric in the Byzantine city of Amorion in the Phrygia region of Asia Minor (today western Turkey ). The bishopric was assigned to the church province of Synnada in Phrygia . Amorium has been a titular archbishopric since 1929.

Titular (arch) bishops of Amorium
No. Surname Office from to
1 Francis Petre Apostolic Koadjutorvikar , Vicar Apostolic of Northern District ( UK ) July 27, 1750 December 24, 1775
2 Crescentius Maria Grippi December 19, 1785
3 Károly Rajner Auxiliary Bishop in Eger ( Hungary ) April 17, 1840 1846
4th Johannes Baptist Swinkels CSsR Vicar Apostolic of Dutch Guiana - Suriname ( Antilles ) September 12, 1865 September 15, 1875
5 Maximino Velasco OP Coadjutor Apostolic Vicar, Vicar Apostolic of North Tonking ( Vietnam ) July 28, 1889 July 9, 1925
6th Manuel Medina y Olmos Auxiliary Bishop in Granada ( Spain ) December 14, 1925 October 2, 1928
7th Richard Michael Joseph O'Brien Coadjutor Archbishop of Kingston ( Canada ) May 17, 1929 February 23, 1938
8th Hugh McSherry Emeritus Vicar Apostolic of Cape of Good Hope, Eastern District ( South Africa ) December 15, 1938 April 19, 1940
9 Joseph Charbonneau Coadjutor Archbishop of Montréal (Canada) May 21, 1940 August 31, 1940
10 Jean-Baptiste-Alix Chambon MEP Archbishop Emeritus of Yokohama ( Japan ) November 12, 1940 September 8, 1948
11 Michele Godlewski Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus in Lutsk ( Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ) January 14, 1949 May 20, 1956
12 Ambrogio Squintani Bishop emeritus of Ascoli Piceno ( Italy ) 17th December 1956 August 8, 1960
13 Pietro Capizzi Bishop emeritus of Caltagirone (Italy) November 11, 1960 July 7, 1961
14th Giovanni C. Luigi Marinoni OFMCap Emeritus Vicar Apostolic of Asmara ( Abyssinia ) August 12, 1961 5th August 1970

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