Andropolis, Egypt
See Andropolis for namesakes Andropolis was an Ancient city and former bishopric in Roman Egypt, and is now a Latin Catholic titular see. History Andropolis, identified with modern Kherbeta in present Egypt, was important enough in the Roman province of Aegyptus Primus to become a suffragan of its Metropolitan, the patriarchate of Alexandria, but the see faded like most, plausibly at the advent of Islam. Its only undisputedly documented ('Greek') bishop, Zoilus, participated in a council of Alexandria convoked by Patriarch Atanasius in 362 A Coptic bishop named Jacob allegedly occupied the see according to Klaas A. Worp. Titular see The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin Titular bishopric of Andropolis (Latin) / Andropoli (Curiate Italian) / Andropolitan(us) (Latin adjective). It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank : Henri Joseph Marius Piérard, Assumptionists (A.A.) (born Belgium) (1938.02.09 – 1959.11.10) as Apostolic Vicar of Beni in Belgian Congo (Congo-Kinshasa) (1938.02.09 – 1959.11.10); previously only Ecclesiastical Superior of Mission sui iuris of Beni in Belgian Congo (Congo-Kinshasa) (1934 – (see) promoted 1938.02.09); later 'first' Bishop of (promoted see) Beni in Congo (Congo-Kinshasa) (1959.11.10 – 1960.07.07), (see) restyled Bishop of Beni (now Butembo-Beni) (1960.07.07