Rosalia, Pisidia

Rosalia (in Pisidia) was an Ancient city and Roman bishopric in the Roman province of Pisidia, which is now in Anatolia (Asian Turkey) and a Latin Catholic titular see.

See Rosalia for namesakes

History

Its location isn't clear, nor even its Metropolitan Archbishopric, but it faded like most sees in Asia Minor.

No incumbents were recorded, nor even which Archbishopric was its Metropolitan.

Titular see

No later than 1687, the diocese was nominally restored as Latin Titular bishopric of Rosalia (Curiate Italian) / Rosalien(sis) (Latin adjective).

It was suppressed by decree of Propaganda Fide in 1894,[1] having had the following incumbents, all of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank :

  • Arthus De Lionne, Paris Foreign Missions Society (M.E.P.) (born France) (1687.02.05 – death 1713.08.02), first as Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Szechwan 四川 (China) (1687.02.05 – 1696.10.20), then succeeding as Apostolic Vicar of Szechwan 四川 (1696.10.20 – 1713.08.02)
  • Jean-Jacques Tessier de Quéralay (1717.09.17 – death 1736.09.27) (born France), first as Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Siam (Thailand) (1717.09.17 – 1727.04.01), then succeeding as Apostolic Vicar Siam (Thailand) (1727.04.01 – 1736.09.27)
  • Francisco Gutiérrez Galeano, Mercedarians (O. de M.) (1738.04.21 – 1745.01.25) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Lima (Peru) (1738.04.21 – 1745.01.25); later Bishop of Ayacucho (Peru) (1745.01.25 – death 1748.10.12)
  • Johann Gottfried Groß von Trockau (1745.03.08 – death 1750.09.15) as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Eichstätt (Germany) (1745.03.08 – 1750.09.15)
  • Jean-Antoine Buocher, Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (born Italy) (1752.01.21 – death 1765.11.05), first as Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Shensi and Shansi 陝西山西 (China) (1752.01.21 – 1756.12.20), then succeeding as Vicar Apostolic of Shensi and Shansi 陝西山西 (1756.12.20 – 1765.11.05)
  • Giovanni Antonio Pompeiana, O.F.M. (1808.03.22 – 1823) as Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Shensi and Shansi 陝西山西 (China) (1808.03.22 – 1823 not possessed); later Titular Bishop of Echinus (1823 – 1828.09.19) again as Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Shensi and Shansi 陝西山西 (1823 – 1828.09.19)
  • Luis García Guillén, Mercederians (O. de M.) (1830.10.19 – 1831.02.28 not possessed), later Bishop of Chiapas (Mexico) (1831.02.28 – death 1834.08.19)
  • Fidèle Sutter, Capuchin Franciscans (O.F.M. Cap.) (1844.07.05 – 1881.08.02) as Vicar Apostolic of Tunis (Tunisia) (1844.07.05 – 1881.06.28); next emeritate promoted as Titular Archbishop of Ancyra (1881.08.02 – 1883.08.30)
  • Henry Pinckney Northrop (1881.09.16 – 1883.01.27) as Apostolic Vicar of North Carolina (USA) (1881.09.16 – 1888.02.04); later Bishop of Charleston (South Carolina, USA) (1883.01.27 – death 1916.06.07)
  • Andrés Chinchón (楊真崇), Dominican Order (O.P.) (1883.12.11 – 1892.05.01) as first Apostolic Apostolic Vicar of Amoy 廈門 (China) (1883.12.11 – 1892.05.01)
  • Janos Jung (1893.01.19 – death 1917.02.27), no actual prelature.

See also

References
  1. Annuaire Pontifical Catholique 1900, pp. 348-349
Bibliography
  • Konrad Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi, vol. 5, p. 335; vol. 6, p. 358
  • Gaetano Moroni, Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica, vol. 59, p. 150
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