Andropolis, Egypt
Andropolis was an Ancient city and former bishopric in Roman Egypt, and is now a Latin Catholic titular see.
History
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 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
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin Titular bishopric of Andropolis / Andropoli / Andropolitan.It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal rank :
- Henri Joseph Marius Piérard, Assumptionists as Apostolic Vicar of Beni in Belgian Congo ; previously only Ecclesiastical Superior of Mission sui iuris of Beni in Belgian Congo ; later 'first' Bishop of Beni in Congo, restyled Bishop of Beni, emeritate as Titular Bishop of Molicunza, died 1975
- Thomas Francis Maloney as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Providence
- Enrique Bolaños Quesada as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Alajuela, also Secretary General of Episcopal Conference of Costa Rica ; next succeeded as Bishop of Alajuela, died 1992
- Youhanna Golta, first as Auxiliary Bishop of Alexandria of the Copts, then as Bishop of Curia of the Coptic Catholic Patriarchate of Alexandria.