Diocese of Buto

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The Diocese of Buto (Latin Butus, Greek Butos) is a former

Coptic Orthodox Churches, with see in the Ancient City of Buto in the Nile Delta of Egypt.[1]

Location

Buto, identified with Tell al-Fara'in ("Pharaohs' Mound") and the village of Ibtu or Abtu near the city of

Arabic: دسوق),[2] was an ancient city in the Nile Delta, even one of the oldest cities on earth, with a history back to the Neolithic
age.

During the

bishopric
.

History

During the

Patriarchate of Alexandria. Lequien's Oriens Christianus [3] identified Butus with Phthenothi, but according to Klaas A. Worp's list of Byzantine-era bishops in Egypt,[4]
Ftenote is a different see [not titular], which had the bishops Pininute(s,) (325), Agapius (343) and Eracleius (451), in which case the first-mentioned wasn't bishop of Butus.

Recorded bishops of Buto (with the above proviso) were :

Latin titular see

The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin

Roman Catholic Church
.

It is vacant since decades, having had a single incumbent, of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank:[6]

  • František Tomášek (October 12, 1949 – June 27, 1977) as
    Ss. Vitale, Valeria, Gervasio e Protasio
    (June 27, 1977 – death August 4, 1992), Metropolitan Archbishop of Prague (December 30, 1977 – retired March 27, 1991), President of Bishops’ Conference of Czechoslovakia (1990 – June 11, 1991).

Oriental Orthodox titular see

The see remains a titular bishopric of the

Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria.[citation needed
]

See also

References

  1. ^ : Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Butos". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
  2. ^ Wilkinson, R. H. The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt, (Thames & Hudson, 2000), p. 104.
  3. ^ Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Paris, 1740, vol. II, coll. 529-530
  4. ^ Klaas A. Worp, A Checklist of Bishops in Byzantine Egypt (A.D. 325 - c. 750), in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 100 (1994), pages 283-318
  5. Liverpool University Press, 2005) p338
    .
  6. ^ http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t0362.htm GCatholic - (titular) bishopric
  7. ^ Bernard C. Pawley, Observing Vatican II (Cambridge University Press, 2014)p285.
  8. ^ Butus at GCatholic.org.

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