Latin Catholic Diocese of Acre
The bishop of Acre was a
History
The introduction of Christianity to
, and from there traveled to Ptolemais, where he stayed some days with the local Christian community (acts 21.7).The first bishop known is
With the conquest of the crusaders in the 12th century, the city, called St-Jean d'Acre, became part of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and was a diocese of the Latin Church, headquartered at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross. Against the eastern practice and ecclesiastical tradition, the Crusaders detached the diocese, along with the rest of southern Phoenicia, from the Patriarchate of Antioch, and made it a suffragan of Jerusalem.
After the fall of Jerusalem in 1187, the seat of the patriarch moved to Tyre and then to St-Jean d'Acre in 1191; the patriarch returned to Jerusalem in 1229, when the city was returned to the crusaders, then back to St-Jean d'Acre in 1244. St-Jean d'Acre had its own Bishop until 1263, when the patriarchs of Jerusalem administered it until the fall of the city into the hands of the Muslims in 1291. The most famous bishop of St-Jean d'Acre was the chronicler Jacques de Vitry.
Ptolemais in Phoenicia survives today as a titular see; until the mid-19th century it had the name Aconensis or Acconensis.
List of known bishops of Acre
- Antiquity
- Clarus (late 2nd century)
- Aeneas (before-after 341 325)
- Nectabo (mentioned in 381)
- Antiochus (early 5th century)
- Helladius (mentioned in 431)
- Paul (before 445-after 451)
- John (mentioned in 518)
- George (mentioned in 553)
- Kingdom of Jerusalem
- John † (before 1135 – aft. 1133)
- Rorgo † (mentioned in 1147)
- Hugh of le Mans?
- Frederickc.1150
- William
- Josciusfl.1172
- Rufinus, killed at the Battle of Hattin c. 1187
- Baldwin IX of Flanders, during the Fourth Crusade
- Florent[1] c. 1208
- Jacques de Vitry 1216–1228
- Ralph (Crusade era)
- O. Carm.† (27 Jun 1344 Appointed – )
- Johann Goldener, O.S.A. † (14 Jan 1451 Appointed – 25 Apr 1475)[2]
- Modern (titular)
- Titular Bishop: Bishop Armand de Rohan-Soubise-Ventadour(1742.07.30 – 1747.04.10)
- Titular Bishop: Bishop Luiz de Castro Pereira, C.S.J. (1804.10.29 – 1822.08.01)
- Titular Bishop: Bishop Maciej Pawel Mozdzeniewski (1815.07.10 – 1819.04.02)
- Titular Bishop: Bishop Ferdinand Maria von Chotek (later Archbishop) (1817.04.14 – 1831.09.30)
- Titular Bishop: Bishop Franciscus Renatus Boussen(1832.12.17 – 1834.06.23)
- Titular Bishop: Archbishop Alois Josef Schrenk (1838.02.12 – 1838.09.17)
- Titular Bishop: Bishop Tommaso Feeny (Thomas Feeny) (1839.07.27 – 1848.01.11)
- Titular Bishop: Bishop Cassien-Léonard de Peretti (1875.03.31 – 1892.02.22)
- Titular Archbishop: Archbishop José Marcondes Homem de Melo (1906.12.06 – 1908.08.09)
- Titular Archbishop: Archbishop Augustin Dontenwill, O.M.I. (1909.01.19 – 1931.11.30)
- Louis Joseph El-Khazen, O.A.M. † (23 Feb 1919 Appointed – 22 Feb 1933 Died)
- Titular Bishop: Bishop Louis-Eugène-Arsène Turquetil, O.M.I. (1931.12.15 – 1955.06.14)
- Titular Bishop: Bishop Edmundo Luís Kunz (1955.08.01 – 1988.09.12)[3][4]
- Joseph Khoury † (Auxiliary Bishop: 4 May 1956 to 11 Dec 1959)
- Camille Zaidan (13 Aug 2011 Appointed – 16 Jun 2012 Confirmed, Archbishop of Antélias (Maronite))
Notes
- ^ Steven Runciman, A History of the Crusades III, p.132.
- ^ Diocese of Acre at catholic-hierarchy.org.
- ^ Ptolemais in Phoenicia at GCatholic.org.
- ^ Ptolemais in Phoenicia dei Maroniti at catholic-hierarchy.org.
- ^ Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 211, Number 17,519
- ^ Bishops who are not Ordinaries of Sees Archived 2015-02-08 at the Wayback Machine.