Titular Archdiocese of Lemnus

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Lemnus ( Italian : Lemno ) is a titular archbishopric of the Roman Catholic Church .

It goes back to an earlier diocese on the island of Limnos in the Aegean Sea , which belonged to the Roman province of Insulae in late antiquity . The diocese belonged to the ecclesiastical province of Rhodes .

Titular Archbishops of Lemnus
No. Surname Office from to
1 Pasquale Gagliardi Archbishop emeritus of Manfredonia and Vieste ( Italy ) October 1, 1929 December 11, 1941
2 Gabriel-Marie Garrone Coadjutor Archbishop of Toulouse-Narbonne-Saint Bertrand de Comminges-Rieux ( France ) April 24, 1947 5th November 1956
3 William Thomas Porter SMA Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Coast ( Ghana ) May 15, 1959 June 16, 1966
4th François-Marie-Joseph Poirier Archbishop Emeritus of Port-au-Prince ( Haiti ) 18th August 1966 January 23, 1976

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