Titular Archdiocese of Selymbria
Selymbria is a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church , which was elevated to titular archbishopric in 1936.
It goes back to a lost diocese of the ancient and Byzantine city of Selymbria, today Silivri , capital of the district of the same name in the Turkish province of İstanbul in the European part of Turkey .
| Titular Bishops / Archbishops of Selymbria | ||||
| No. | Surname | Office | from | to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Juan de Witte Hoos (Ubite) OP | May 15, 1514 | April 28, 1517 | |
| 2 | Antonius Sotomayor OSB | Auxiliary Bishop in Prague ( Czech Republic ) | January 28, 1675 | 1679 |
| 3 | Johannes Maximus Stainer von Pleinfelden | Auxiliary Bishop in Passau ( Germany ) | December 7, 1682 | October 15, 1692 |
| 4th | Cayetano Adsor Paredes | March 1, 1778 | February 25, 1782 | |
| 5 | Manuel Abad y Lasierra | Bishop emeritus of Astorga ( Spain ) | April 11, 1792 | January 12, 1806 |
| 6th | Vartan Estegar CAM | Abbot Primate of the Congregation of the Mechitarists of Venice ( Italy ) | September 19, 1884 | |
| 7th | Eduard Angerer | Auxiliary Bishop in Vienna ( Austria ) | June 26, 1890 | August 22, 1898 |
| 8th | Salvatore Gaffiero | Auxiliary Bishop in Malta | November 28, 1898 | |
| 9 | Jakob Klunder | Auxiliary Bishop in Kulm ( Poland ) | July 6, 1907 | October 20, 1927 |
| 10 | Salvio Huix Miralpéix CO | Apostolic Administrator of Ibiza (Spain) | February 16, 1928 | January 28, 1935 |
| 11 | Johannes Heinrich Gerhard Jansen | Archbishop emeritus of Utrecht ( Netherlands ) | February 6, 1936 | May 17, 1936 |
| 12 | Joseph-Lucien Giray | Bishop emeritus of Cahors ( France ) | April 14, 1938 | May 3, 1939 |
| 13 | János Mikes | Archbishop Emeritus of Szombathely ( Hungary ) | August 5, 1939 | 1945 |
| 14th | Ambrose Rayappan | Coadjutor Archbishop of Pondicherry and Cuddalore ( India ) | 7th August 1953 | November 28, 1955 |
| 15th | Miguel Darío Miranda y Gómez | Coadjutor Archbishop of Mexico ( Mexico ) | December 20, 1955 | June 28, 1956 |
| 16 | William Otterwell Brady | Coadjutor Archbishop of Saint Paul ( Minnesota , USA ) | June 16, 1956 | October 11, 1956 |
| 17th | Joaquín Garcia Benitez CIM | Archbishop Emeritus of Medellín ( Colombia ) | February 28, 1957 | September 1, 1958 |
| 18th | Aloysius Joseph Muench | Bishop Emeritus of Fargo ( North Dakota ) (United States) | December 9, 1959 | February 15, 1962 |
| 19th | Emile-Joseph Socquet MAfr | Archbishop emeritus of Ouagadougou ( Burkina Faso ) | January 12, 1960 | July 16, 1987 |