Sion (Asia Minor)
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Sion is a former Ancient city and bishopric in Asia Minor (ASian Turkley), and presently a Latin Catholic titular see.
History
Sion was a city in the Roman province of Asia Prima. It was important enough to become a bisopric, suffragan of the Metropolitan of the provincial capital Ephesus, but faded.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored as a titular bishopric (see of the lowest rank), suppressed shortly in 1925, restored as such in 1929 and promoted to titular archbishopric (intermediary rank) on 12 December 1950.
It is vacant, having had the following incumbents:
- Titular Bishop Benito Madueño y Ramos (1698.12.19 – 1739.05.11)
- Titular Bishop Deodatus de Chaumont de Mareuil (1765.03.27 – ?)
- Titular Bishop Edmund Burke (1817.07.04 – 1820.11.29)
- Titular Bishop Wilhelm Arnold Günther, Norbertines (O. Praem.) (1834.06.23 – 1843.08.22)
- Titular Bishop Jean Baptiste Epalle, Marists (S.M.) (1844.07.19 – 1845.12.19)
- Titular Bishop Sebastiano Franković, Friars Minor (O.F.M. Obs.) (1861.04.16 – 1864.10.30)
- Titular Bishop Giuseppe Durguth (1865.09.25 – ?)
- Titular Bishop Luigi Martucci (1874.12.21 – 1880.12.23)
- Titular Bishop François-Louis Fleck (1881.05.13 – 1886.08.18)
- Titular Archbishop Jaime Cardona y Tur (1892.07.11 – 1920.12.09), Military Vicar of Spain (1892.07.11 – 1923.01.06), later Titular Patriarch of Indias Occidentales (1920.12.09 – 1923.01.06)
- Titular Archbishop Raimondo Pérez y Rodríguez (1929.01.07 – 1930.06.30), previously Bishop of Badajoz (Spain) (1920.08.21 – 1929.01.07); later Military Vicar of Spain (1929.01.07 – 1937.01.28), Titular Patriarch of the East Indies (1930.06.30 – 1937.01.28), and Bishop of Cádiz y Ceuta (Spain) (1933.04.21 – 1937.01.28)
- Titular Bishop Francesco Pascucci (1936.12.20 – 1943.04.22), previously Undersecretary of the Roman Sacred Congregation of the Sacraments (1909 – 1912); later Pro-Vicar General for the papal Vicariate of Rome (1936.12.20 – 1945.03.30), Titular Archbishop of Nicæa (1943.04.22 – 1945.03.30)
- Titular Archbishop Luis Alonso Muñoyerro (1950.12.12 – 1968.09.23)
