Agnus (Egypt)

Agnus (Coptic: ⲡⲓϣⲓⲛⲓⲏⲟⲩ)[1] was an ancient city and bishopric in Roman Egypt and remains a Latin Catholic titular see.

Its modern location in present Egypt is unclear.

History

Agnus was important enough in the late Roman province of Aegyptus Primus to be one of the many suffragan of the Metropolitan (becoming Patriarchate) of capital Alexandria, yet was to fade.

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as a Latin Catholic titular bishopric.

It is vacant since decades, having had the following incumbents of the lowest (episcopal) rank :

  • Havryil Blazhovskyi, O.S.B.M. (1738.09.12 – 1742.12.20)
  • Richard Patrick Smith (1837.02.21 – 1845.05.28) (later Archbishop*)
  • Thomas John Feeney, S.J. (1951.05.10 – 1955.09.09)
  • Paul Nguyễn Văn Bình (1955.09.20 – 1960.11.24) (later Archbishop*)
  • Michel-Louis Vial (1961.02.08 – 1963.12.17)

References

  1. ↑ Emile, Amélineau (1893). La géographie de l’Egypte à l'époque copte. Paris: Imprimerie nationale. p. 275.
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