Phasis (titular see)
Phasis was an ancient and early medieval city on the eastern Black Sea coast, near modern Poti in Georgia.
After the introduction of Christianity Phasis was the see of a Greek diocese one of whose bishops, Cyrus, became a Patriarch of Alexandria between AD 630 and 641.
Titular see
In 1929, the diocese was nominally restored as a Latin titular archbishopric of the highest rank.It is vacant since decades, having had the following archiepiscopal incumbents:
- Constantino Ajutti as papal diplomat: Apostolic Delegate to Indochina
- William Mark Duke as Coadjutor Archbishop of Vancouver, later succeeded as Metropolitan Archbishop of Vancouver, emeritate as Titular Archbishop of Seleucia in Isauria
- Geevarghese Ivanios Giorgio Tommaso Panickerveetil, Order of the Imitation of Christ as former Founder and first Superior General of Order of the Imitation of Christ ; next first Metropolitan of Trivandrum of the Syro-Malankars
- Jacques Leen, Holy Ghost Fathers, as personal promotion and on emeritate as former Titular Bishop of Hippo Diarrhytus and Coadjutor Bishop of Port-Louis, succeeding as Bishop of Port-Louis, then Archbishop ad personam
- Louis-Gabriel-Xavier Jantzen, Paris Foreign Missions Society ; emeritate as former Titular Bishop of Tremithus and last Apostolic Vicar of Chungking 重慶 promoted as first Metropolitan Archbishop of Chungking 重慶
- Henri Audrain as Coadjutor Archbishop of Auch, succeeded as Metropolitan Archbishop of Auch, emeritate as Titular Archbishop of Mimiana, died 1982; previously Titular Bishop of Arsinoë in Arcadia as Auxiliary Bishop of Versailles
- Arturo Mery Beckdorf, first as Coadjutor Archbishop of Santiago, then as Auxiliary Bishop of La Serena, next as Coadjutor Archbishop of La Serena ; previously Titular Bishop of Parnassus as Auxiliary Bishop of Antofagasta