Diocese of Antigonia

Roman Catholic titular see

Dioecesis Orientis 400 AD. James Wood

The Diocese of Antigonea is a suppressed, titular see[1] of the Early Christian Church. The ancient city of Antigonea in Syria was the seat of the bishopric of the diocese, where the following bishops are known to have sat.[2]

## Bishops

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* Joseph Heinrich von Braitenbücher (12 April 1728 – 24 February 1749)
* Georg Franz Lock (22 May 1801 – 7 September 1831)
* Tomás Miguel Pineda y Saldaña (3 July 1848 – 10 March 1853)
* David Moriarty (8 March 1854 – 22 July 1856; succeeded, Bishop of Kerry)
* James Frederick Wood (9 January 1857 – 5 January 1860; succeeded, Bishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
* Thomas Grimley (18 December 1860 – 29 January 1871)
* Jean-Claude Duret, C.S.Sp. (26 August 1873 – 29 December 1875)
* Marchie-Jean-Gustave Blanc, (17 April 1877 – 21 February 1890)
* Giulio Marchsili (12 August 1890 – 28 July 1911)
* Theodorus Antonius Leonardus Marchia van Roosmalen, (23 August 1911 – 9 June 1957)

## See also

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* Catholic Church in Syria

## References

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1. ^ David M. Cheney, Antigonea at catholic-hierarchy.org.[self-published source]
2. ^ Antigonea at GCatholic.org.

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