Algiza is a former ancient city (under the name

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) and bishopric in Asia Minor, now a Latin Catholic

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. Its modern location is Baliapasakov in Asian

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History

Algiza was important enough in the Late

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Asia Prima The Asia ( grc, Ἀσία) was a Roman province covering most of western Anatolia, which was created following the Roman Republic's annexation of the Attalid Kingdom in 133 BC. After the establishment of the Roman Empire by Augustus, it was th ...

to be a suffragan of its capital Ephesus's Metropolitan Archbishop, but faded.

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored as a Latin Catholic

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, first under the name Argiza, since 1929 renamed Algiza. It is vacant, having had the following 20th-century incumbents, of the lowest (episcopal) rank except the last of archiepiscopal (intermediary) rank : * Fiorenzo Umberto Tessiatore (戴夏德),

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(O.F.M.) (1928.05.18 – 1932.04.10) *

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(1932.07.29 – 1935.12.19) as Auxiliary Bishop of

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(Brazil) (1932.07.29 – 1935.12.19), later Metropolitan Archbishop of

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(Brazil) (1935.12.19 – 1944.08.13), Metropolitan Archbishop of

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(Brazil) (1944.08.13 – 1964.04.18), created

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(1946.02.22 – 1982.09.18), President of National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (1952 – 1958),

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(Brazil) (1958.04.19 – 1964.04.18), succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Aparecida (1964.04.18 – 1982.09.18), Apostolic Administrator of Lorena (Brazil) (1970 – 1971.11.03),

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(1977.08.02 – 1982.09.18) * Auguste-Maurice Clément (1936.03.02 – 1939.03.03) * Ignacio de Alba y Hernández (1939.04.29 – 1949.06.30) * John Patrick Kavanagh (1949.07.14 – 1957.12.26) * Titular Archbishop

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(1961.10.14 – death 1995.12.09), as papal diplomat:

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to Indochina (1959 – 1962),

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to United Arab Republic (1962 – 1965), Secretary of Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Churches (1965 – 1982)

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