The Latin or Roman Catholic Archbishopric of Neopatras is a titular see of the Catholic Church. It was established briefly as a residential episcopal see at Neopatras ("New Patras", modern Ypati) in Central Greece, after the Fourth Crusade, in place of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Neopatras. The area was recovered by the Epirote Greeks in , but came again under Latin rule in 1319 as the Duchy of Neopatras, leading to the restoration of the see until the Ottoman conquest. The archbishopric was restored as a titular see in 1933. Its last incumbent died in 1967.
Residential archbishops Name Tenure Notes Anonymous 1208 John, OSB 13 February 1218 – ? Ferrer d'Abella, OP 27 June 1323 – 28 September 1330 Subsequently Bishop of Mazara del Vallo Jacob Pietro Fabbri de Armoniaco, OFM 9 August 1361 – ? Francis, OFM Matthew, OFM 6 February 1376 – ?
Titular holders The Latin archdiocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Catholic Metropolitan titular archbishopric (, adj. Neopatrensis; Curiate Italian: Neopatrasso). Name Tenure Notes Angel María Pérez y Cecilia, OCD 1934.11.12 – death 1945.06.14 Leonida Medina 1947.07.19 – death 1953.12.25 Domenico Menna 1954.09.08 – death 1957.10.08 Angelo Innocent Fernandes 1959.06.04 – 1967.09.16 As Coadjutor Archbishop of Delhi
See also List of Catholic titular sees
References
Sources Novae Patrae at www.catholic-hierarchy.org Titular Metropolitan See of Novæ Patræ at www.gcatholic.org Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 429
Gaetano Moroni, Patrasso o Neopatra o Nova Patrasso, in Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica, Vol. LI, Venice 1851, p. 291 Konrad Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi, Vol. 1 , p. 362; Vol. 2, p. XXXII