Theodosiopolis in Arcadia


Theodosiopolis was an Ancient city and diocese in Lower Egypt,
The town was the seat of an ancient bishopric and is now a Latin Catholic titular see.
Its modern site is Taha Al-Amidah, in northern Egypt.

History

Theodosiopolis was important enough in the Late Roman province of Arcadia Aegypti to be a suffragan of its capital Oxyrhynchus's Metropolitan Archbishopric, but the bishopric was to fade with the city.

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored as a Latin Catholic titular bishopric around 1600 under the name Theodosia, but was renamed Theodosiopolis in 1925, and finally to Theodosiopolis in Arcadia in 1933.
It is vacant since decades, having had the following incumbents, first of the lowest rank, but since 1669 of the archiepiscopal rank :