Theodosiopolis in Arcadia

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Theodosiopolis (in Arcadia) was an Ancient city and diocese in Lower Egypt,

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The town was the seat of an ancient bishopric and is now a Latin Catholic titular see. [1] [2]

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Its modern site is Taha-el-Amudein, (Governorate of Minya) in northern Egypt. (Longitude : 30.7 Latitude : 28.19 Altitude : 41m)

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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.

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Arcadia Aegypti

Arcadia or Arcadia Aegypti was a Late Roman province in northern Egypt.

Oxyrhynchus Village in Egypt

Oxyrhynchus is a city in Middle Egypt located about 160 km south-southwest of Cairo in Minya Governorate. It is also an archaeological site, considered one of the most important ever discovered. For the past century, the area around Oxyrhynchus has been continually excavated, yielding an enormous collection of papyrus texts dating from the Ptolemaic Kingdom and Roman Egypt. Among the texts discovered at Oxyrhynchus are plays of Menander, fragments from the Gospel of Thomas, and fragments from Euclid's Elements. They also include a few vellum manuscripts, and more recent Arabic manuscripts on paper.

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 :

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  1. ↑ Theodosiopolis in Arcadia, catholic-hierarchy.org.
  2. ↑ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN   978-88-209-9070-1), "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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