Diocese of Buto
(Redirected from
Butus
)The Diocese of Buto (Latin Butus, Greek Butos) is a former
Location
Buto, identified with Tell al-Fara'in ("Pharaohs' Mound") and the village of Ibtu or Abtu near the city of 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 :
- ? Pininute (mentioned in 325)
- Caius (in 325)
- Ammon, who attended the Council of Chalcedon,[5]
- Tommasus (Thomas) (first mention 458 - 459)
- Teonas (in 459).
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
- ^ : Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Butos". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
- ^ Wilkinson, R. H. The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt, (Thames & Hudson, 2000), p. 104.
- ^ Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Paris, 1740, vol. II, coll. 529-530
- ^ 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
- Liverpool University Press, 2005) p338.
- ^ http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t0362.htm GCatholic - (titular) bishopric
- ^ Bernard C. Pawley, Observing Vatican II (Cambridge University Press, 2014)p285.
- ^ Butus at GCatholic.org.
Sources and external links
- GCatholic - Butus - (former and) titular see
- Catholic-hierarchy.org - Butus
- Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig, 1931, p. 460