Arad was an Ancient city and bishopric and is now a Catholic titular see.
History
The Ancient city was in the
Roman province
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of
Palestina III
Palaestina Salutaris or Palaestina Tertia was a Byzantine (Eastern Roman) province, which covered the area of the Negev, Sinai (except the north western coast) and south-west of Transjordan, south of the Dead Sea. The province, a part of the Di ...
. It was a diocese,
suffragan
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In the Anglican Communion, a suffragan bishop is a bishop who is subordinate to a metropolitan bishop or diocesan bishop (bishop ordinary) and so is not normally jurisdictiona ...
of the Metropolitan of
Petra
Petra ( ar, ٱلْبَتْرَاء, Al-Batrāʾ; grc, Πέτρα, "Rock", Nabataean Aramaic, Nabataean: ), originally known to its inhabitants as Raqmu or Raqēmō, is an historic and archaeological city in southern Jordan. It is adjacent to t ...
.
Its remains are at
Tell-'Arad in modern
Jordan
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.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored as a
titular see
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of the lowest (episcopal) rank in 1725.
It is vacant since 1969 after having had the following, often non-consecutive incumbents:
* Karol Poniński (1725.12.19 – 1727.09)
* Caspar Adolph Schnernauer (1728.05.10 – 1733.06.20)
* Franz Joseph Anton von Hahn (1734.03.27 – 1748.07.04)
* Andrés Cano y Junquera (1748.12.16 – 1770.09.10)
* Friar Ignacy Houwalt (1804.08.20 – 1807.05.05)
* Giovanni Domenico Rizzolati,
Franciscans
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(O.F.M.) (1839.08.30 – 1862.04.13)
* Pedro José Tordoya Montoya (1880.08.20 – 1881)
* Augustine Kandathil (1911.08.29 – 1923.12.21) (later Archbishop)
* Pierre Aziz Ho (1924.01.16 – 1929.08.03)
* Jacob Abraham Theophilos Kalapurakal (1932.02.13 – 1932.06.11)
* Pierre-Marie Gourtay,
Spiritans
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(C.S.Sp.) (1933.01.10 – 1944.09.16)
* Vicente Roig y Villalba,
Capuchins
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*Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, an order of Roman Catholic friars
*Capuchin Poor Clares, an order of Roman Catholic contemplative religious sisters
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(O.F.M. Cap.) (1944.12.15 – 1969.04.25)
See also
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Catholic Church in Jordan
The Catholic Church in Jordan is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome.
There are approximately 114,000 Catholics in Jordan or 1.9% of the Jordanian population. Catholics are divided in four Rit ...
References
External links
GigaCatholic, with titular bishop biographies
{{Subject bar , portal1= Catholicism , portal2= Jordan
Former Roman Catholic dioceses in Africa
Catholic titular sees in Asia