Theodosiopolis in Arcadia explained

28.19°N 30.7°WTheodosiopolis (in Arcadia) 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.[1] [2]

Its modern site is Taha Al-Amidah, (Governorate of Minya) 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,[3] 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 (avoiding confusion with namesakes) in 1933.

It is vacant since decades, having had the following incumbents, first of the lowest (episcopal) rank, but since 1669 of the archiepiscopal (intermediary) rank :

Source and external links

Specific

  1. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d2t82.html Theodosiopolis in Arcadia
  2. Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013), "Sedi titolari", pp. 819-1013.
  3. Joseph Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticæ: Or, The Antiquities of the Christian Church, and Other Works, of the Rev. Joseph Bingham, Volume 3(W. Straker, 1840) p 202.

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