See Andropolis for namesakes

Andropolis was an Ancient city and former bishopric in Roman Egypt, and is now a Latin Catholic titular see.

History

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Andropolis, identified with modern Kherbeta in present Egypt, was important enough in the Roman province of Aegyptus Primus to become a suffragan of its Metropolitan, the patriarchate of Alexandria, but the see faded like most, plausibly at the advent of Islam.

  • Its only undisputedly documented ('Greek') bishop, Zoilus, participated in a council of Alexandria convoked by Patriarch Atanasius in 362
  • A Coptic bishop named Jacob allegedly occupied the see according to Klaas A. Worp.

Titular see

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The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin Titular bishopric of Andropolis (Latin) / Andropoli (Curiate Italian) / Andropolitan(us) (Latin adjective).

It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank :

See also

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Bibliography - ecclesiastical
  • Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 460
  • Michel Lequien, 'Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Paris 1740, vol. II, coll. 523-524
  • Klaas A. Worp, A Checklist of Bishops in Byzantine Egypt (A.D. 325 - c. 750), in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 100 (1994) 283-318 (cfr. p. 296)
  • S. Pétridès, lemma 'Andron polis', in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. II, Paris 1914, coll. 1801-1802