Ryahovo

History

• The village was created as Appiaria under Roman Emperor Vespasian as a fortress-castle on the banks of the Danube, which was probably destroyed by seventh century Bulgarian invaders.
• Under Romanian occupation in late 1916, from the early morning of 1 October to the late night of 3 October, during the Flămânda Offensive.
• Apiaria Bight on Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica was named after it.

  Ecclesiastical History

• Lupicinus, mentioned in a letter of Saint John Chrysostomos to Pope Innocent I, circa 403
• Martialis, who signed the letter of the episcopate of Moesia Secunda to Byzantine Emperor Leo I the Thracian in 458 after the lynching by Coptic mobs of Patriarch Proterius of Alexandria.

Titular see

• Bonifatius Sauer, Missionary Benedictine Congregation of Saint Ottilien , first as Apostolic Vicar of Wonsan , later as Abbot Ordinary of Territorial Abbacy of Tŏkugen , also Apostolic Administrator of the renamed Apostolic Vicariate of Kanko
• Joseph Lennox Federal as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Salt Lake City ; next promoted Coadjutor Bishop of Salt Lake City, succeeding as Bishop of Salt Lake City, died 2000
• Thomas Austin Murphy as Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore and as emeritate
• Vasile Bizău as Bishop of Curia of the Romanian Catholic Church ; later Eparch of Maramureş of the Romanians
• Ernesto Giobando, Jesuit Order , Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Buenos Aires.