Arsuz ( ar, أرسوز ; el, Αρσούς) is a town and district
Hatay Province
Hatay Province ( tr, Hatay ili, ) is the southernmost province of Turkey. It is situated almost entirely outside Anatolia, along the eastern coast of the Levantine Sea. The province borders Syria to its south and east, the Turkish province of A ...
,
Turkey
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. In ancient times, it was known as Rhosus ( grc, Ῥῶσός and Ῥωσός) and was a former
bishopric
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associate ...
and
titular see
A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular metropolitan" (highest rank), "titular archbish ...
.
Geography
Arsuz used to be a part of
İskenderun
İskenderun ( ar, الإسكندرونة, el, Αλεξανδρέττα "Little Alexandria"), historically known as Alexandretta and Scanderoon, is a city in Hatay Province on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey.
Names
The city was founded as Ale ...
district
A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...
of
Hatay Province
Hatay Province ( tr, Hatay ili, ) is the southernmost province of Turkey. It is situated almost entirely outside Anatolia, along the eastern coast of the Levantine Sea. The province borders Syria to its south and east, the Turkish province of A ...
. The town center is located South of İskenderun and from
Antakya
Antakya (), historically known as Antioch ( el, Ἀντιόχεια; hy, Անտիոք, Andiok), is the capital of Hatay Province, the southernmost province of Turkey. The city is located in a well-watered and fertile valley on the Orontes Rive ...
(administrative center of Hatay Province). The population is 90,456 as of 2018. While the town center is relatively small near the end of a coastal road leading south from İskenderun, the entire coastal region between İskenderun and the town center is often simply referred as Arsuz. This area is predominantly small rural farms (generally located inland towards the mountains) and small groups of summer homes (generally located near the coastline).
In 2014, according to Turkish law no. 6360, Arsuz became a municipality with seven towns and 25 villages.
History
Arsuz had many names throughout history, including: Rhosus, Rhossos, Rhossus, Rhopolis, Port Panel/Bonnel, Kabev and Arsous. The earliest documents about it date from the
Seleucid Empire
The Seleucid Empire (; grc, Βασιλεία τῶν Σελευκιδῶν, ''Basileía tōn Seleukidōn'') was a Greek state in West Asia that existed during the Hellenistic period from 312 BC to 63 BC. The Seleucid Empire was founded by the ...
, of whose
Antioch
Antioch on the Orontes (; grc-gre, Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου, ''Antiókheia hē epì Oróntou'', Learned ; also Syrian Antioch) grc-koi, Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου; or Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπ ...
became the capital.
Malalas
John Malalas ( el, , ''Iōánnēs Malálas''; – 578) was a Byzantine chronicler from Antioch (now Antakya, Turkey).
Life
Malalas was of Syrian descent, and he was a native speaker of Syriac who learned how to write in Greek later in ...
writes that the city was founded by Cilix, son of Agenor.
[Malalas, Chronography, Book 8.201](_blank)
/ref> Harpalus
Harpalus (Greek: Ἅρπαλος) son of Machatas was an aristocrat of Macedon and boyhood friend of Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC. Harpalus was repeatedly entrusted with official roles by Alexander and absconded three times with la ...
erected a brazen statue of Glycera by the side of his own statue at Rhosus. Demetrius I of Macedon
Demetrius I (; grc, Δημήτριος; 337–283 BC), also called Poliorcetes (; el, Πολιορκητής, "The Besieger"), was a Macedonian nobleman, military leader, and king of Macedon (294–288 BC). He belonged to the Antigonid dynast ...
moved the statue of the goddess Tyche
Tyche (; Ancient Greek: Τύχη ''Túkhē'', 'Luck', , ; Roman equivalent: Fortuna) was the presiding tutelary deity who governed the fortune and prosperity of a city, its destiny. In Classical Greek mythology, she is the daughter of Aphrodite a ...
from Antigonia to the Rhosos.
Arsuz was then an important seaport on the Gulf of Issus
The Gulf of Alexandretta or İskenderun ( tr, İskenderun Körfezi) is a gulf of the eastern Mediterranean or Levantine Sea. It lies beside the southern Turkey, Turkish provinces of Turkey, provinces of Adana Province, Adana and Hatay Province, Ha ...
. In 64 BC, it was annexed by the Roman Empire
The Roman Empire ( la, Imperium Romanum ; grc-gre, Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, Basileía tôn Rhōmaíōn) was the post-Republican period of ancient Rome. As a polity, it included large territorial holdings around the Mediterr ...
. Under the name Rhosus, it was a city and bishopric (see below) in the late Roman province
The Roman provinces (Latin: ''provincia'', pl. ''provinciae'') were the administrative regions of Ancient Rome outside Roman Italy that were controlled by the Romans under the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire. Each province was rule ...
of Cilicia Secunda, with Anazarba
Anazarbus ( grc, Ἀναζαρβός, medieval Ain Zarba; modern Anavarza; ar, عَيْنُ زَرْبَة) was an ancient Cilician city. Under the late Roman Empire, it was the capital of Cilicia Secunda. Roman emperor Justinian I rebuilt t ...
as its capital. It is mentioned by Strabo
Strabo''Strabo'' (meaning "squinty", as in strabismus) was a term employed by the Romans for anyone whose eyes were distorted or deformed. The father of Pompey was called "Pompeius Strabo". A native of Sicily so clear-sighted that he could see ...
, Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy (; grc-gre, Πτολεμαῖος, ; la, Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD) was a mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist, who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were of importanc ...
, Pliny the Elder
Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/2479), called Pliny the Elder (), was a Roman author, naturalist and natural philosopher, and naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian. He wrote the encyclopedic '' ...
and Stephanus Byzantius; and later by Hierocles and George of Cyprus
George of Cyprus ( el, Γεώργιος Κύπριος; Latinized as ''Georgius Cyprius'') was a Byzantine geographer of the early seventh century.
Nothing is known of his life save that he was born at Lapithos in the island of Cyprus. He is kno ...
.
Some Christians in Rhosus accepted as truth the Docetic
In the history of Christianity, docetism (from the grc-koi, δοκεῖν/δόκησις ''dokeĩn'' "to seem", ''dókēsis'' "apparition, phantom") is the heterodox doctrine that the phenomenon of Jesus, his historical and bodily existence, an ...
''Gospel of Peter
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'' and for them in around AD 200 Serapion of Antioch
Serapion was a Patriarch of Antioch (191–211). He is known primarily through his theological writings, although all but a few fragments of his works have perished. His feast day is celebrated on October 30.
Serapion was considered one of the c ...
composed a treatise condemning the book. Theodoret
Theodoret of Cyrus or Cyrrhus ( grc-gre, Θεοδώρητος Κύρρου; AD 393 – 458/466) was an influential theologian of the School of Antioch, biblical commentator, and Christian bishop of Cyrrhus (423–457). He played a pivo ...
relates the history of the hermit Theodosius of Antioch, founder of a monastery in the mountain near Rhosus, who was forced by the inroads of barbarians to retire to Antioch, where he died and was succeeded by his disciple Romanus, a native of Rhosus; these two religious are honoured by the Greek Orthodox Church
The term Greek Orthodox Church (Greek: Ἑλληνορθόδοξη Ἐκκλησία, ''Ellinorthódoxi Ekklisía'', ) has two meanings. The broader meaning designates "the entire body of Orthodox (Chalcedonian) Christianity, sometimes also call ...
on 5 and 9 February.[
In 638 the city was incorporated into the ]Rashidun Caliphate
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. In 969 it was taken by the Byzantine Empire
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, in 1084 by the Seljuk Turks
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by the Turk ...
, in 1039 by the Crusades
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, in 1296 by the Egyptian Mamluks
The Mamluk Sultanate ( ar, سلطنة المماليك, translit=Salṭanat al-Mamālīk), also known as Mamluk Egypt or the Mamluk Empire, was a state that ruled Egypt, the Levant and the Hejaz (western Arabia) from the mid-13th to early 16th ...
and in 1517 by the Ottoman Turks
The Ottoman Turks ( tr, Osmanlı Türkleri), were the Turkic founding and sociopolitically the most dominant ethnic group of the Ottoman Empire ( 1299/1302–1922).
Reliable information about the early history of Ottoman Turks remains scarce, ...
.
Between 1918 and 1938 the town was under French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon
The Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon (french: Mandat pour la Syrie et le Liban; ar, الانتداب الفرنسي على سوريا ولبنان, al-intidāb al-fransi 'ala suriya wa-lubnān) (1923−1946) was a League of Nations mandate fou ...
with the rest of Iskenderun district. In 1938, it became part of the independent Hatay Republic
Hatay State ( tr, Hatay Devleti; french: État du Hatay; ar , دولة هاتاي ''Dawlat Hatāy''), also known informally as the Republic of Hatay ( ar , جمهورية هاتاي ''Jumhūriyya Hatāy''), was a transitional political entity t ...
, but in June 1939 the Hatay legislature voted to join Turkey.
Demographics
German traveler Martin Hartmann
Martin Hartmann (9 December 1851, Breslau – 5 December 1918, Berlin) was a German orientalist, who specialized in Islamic studies.
In 1875, he received his doctorate at the University of Leipzig as a student of Heinrich Leberecht Fleische ...
listed 31 settlements in the Ottoman nahiyah
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of Arsuz, 10 being Alawite
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(381 houses), 8 being Turkish (205 houses), and 12 without any information. The town of Arsuz (70 houses) was almost wholly Greek
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*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
with the exception of three Arab and one Turkish family.
Ecclesiastical history
Rhosus was a diocese in the sway of the Patriarchate of Antioch
Patriarch of Antioch is a traditional title held by the bishop of Antioch (modern-day Antakya, Turkey). As the traditional "overseer" (ἐπίσκοπος, ''episkopos'', from which the word ''bishop'' is derived) of the first gentile Christian c ...
, originally as a 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 its Metropolitan in provincial capital of Cilicia Secunda, the Archdiocese of Anazarba
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History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associate ...
, as mentioned in the ''Notitiae Episcopatuum The ''Notitiae Episcopatuum'' (singular: ''Notitia Episcopatuum'') are official documents that furnish Eastern countries the list and hierarchical rank of the metropolitan and suffragan bishoprics of a church.
In the Roman Church (the -mostly Lati ...
'' in the 6th century and one dating from about 840. In another of the 10th century Rhosus is included among the 'exempt' sees, directly subject to the Patriarch.
Six residential Suffragan bishops of Rhosus are known:
* Antipatros, at the Council of Antioch
Beginning with three synods convened between 264 and 269 in the matter of Paul of Samosata, more than thirty councils were held in Antioch in ancient times. Most of these dealt with phases of the Arian and of the Christological controversies. For ...
in 363
* Porphyrius, mentioned in a letter by Saint John Chrysostom
John Chrysostom (; gr, Ἰωάννης ὁ Χρυσόστομος; 14 September 407) was an important Early Church Father who served as archbishop of Constantinople. He is known for his homilies, preaching and public speaking, his denunciat ...
circa 404
* Julian, at the Council of Chalcedon
The Council of Chalcedon (; la, Concilium Chalcedonense), ''Synodos tēs Chalkēdonos'' was the fourth ecumenical council of the Christian Church. It was convoked by the Roman emperor Marcian. The council convened in the city of Chalcedon, Bith ...
, 451
* a little later a bishop (name unknown), who separated from his Metropolitan to approve of the reconciliation effected between John of Antioch John of Antioch may refer to:
People from Antioch
* John Chrysostom (c. 347–407), born in Antioch, archbishop of Constantinople
* John Scholasticus (died 577), born in Antioch, patriarch of Constantinople from 565 to 577
* John Malalas (died 578 ...
and Saint Cyril of Alexandria
Cyril of Alexandria ( grc, Κύριλλος Ἀλεξανδρείας; cop, Ⲡⲁⲡⲁ Ⲕⲩⲣⲓⲗⲗⲟⲩ ⲁ̅ also ⲡⲓ̀ⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ Ⲕⲓⲣⲓⲗⲗⲟⲥ; 376 – 444) was the Patriarch of Alexandria from 412 to 444 ...
* Antoninus, at a council of Mopsuestia on the Three-Chapter Controversy
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in 550;
* Theodore, about 600, mentioned by monk-hagiographer John Moschus
John Moschus ( el, Ἰωάννης Μόσχος, c. 550 – 619; name from the grc, ὁ τοῦ Μόσχου, o tou Moschou, (son) of Moschos, was a Byzantine monk and ascetical writer.
Biography
He was born about 550 probably at Damascus. He ...
.
Titular see
No later than the 15th century the diocese was nominally restored as Latin titular bishopric
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of Rhosus (Latin) / Rosea (until 1925) / Roso (Curiate Italian) / Rhosien(sis) (Latin adjective)
It is vacant since decades, having had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank:
* Egidio von Byderborch, Carmelite Order
, image =
, caption = Coat of arms of the Carmelites
, abbreviation = OCarm
, formation = Late 12th century
, founder = Early hermits of Mount Carmel
, founding_location = Mount Ca ...
(O. Carm.) (1428.11.29 – ?) as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Strasbourg
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(France) (1428.11.29 – ?)
* Jean de Montmartin, Friars Minor
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(O.F.M.) (1434.09.01 – death 1436?), no actual prelature
* Heinrich Hopfgarten (1455.11.21 – 1460.03.24) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Mainz
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(Germany) (1455.11.21 – 1460.03.24); later Bishop of Risano (1455.11.21 – 1460.03.24)
* Daniel o last name?! Augustinian Order
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(O.E.S.A.) (1470.12.10 – death 1487?), no actual prelature
* Raphael de Mercatellis
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, appointed titular bishop of Rhosus in 1487, died 1507.
* Adrien Aernoult, O. Carm. (1517.09.18 – 1536.11) as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Cambrai
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(France) (1517.09.18 – 1536.11)
* Miguel de Sanguesa, Cistercian Order
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(O. Cist.) (1537.04.20 – 1548) as Auxiliary Bishop of Tarazona
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H ...
(Spain) (1537.04.20 – 1548); later Bishop of Risano (1537.04.29 – death 1548)
* Johann Michael Wenzel von Spaur (1722.04.20 – death 1743.03.28) as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Trento (Italy) (1722.04.20 – 1743.03.28)
* Mihály Mánuel Olsavszky, Basilian Order of Saint Josaphat
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(O.S.B.M.) (1743.09.05 – death 1767.11.05) as Apostolic Vicar
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of Mukacheve of the Ruthenians
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(Ukraine
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) ( 743.03.121743.09.06 – 1767.11.05)
* Claude-François-Ignace Franchet de Rans (1756.04.05 – death 1810.02.21) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Besançon
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History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associate ...
(France) (1756.04.05 – 1810.02.21)
* János Bradács, O.S.B.M. (1768.01.27 – 1771.09.19) as last Vicar Apostolic of Mukacheve of the Ruthenians
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(Ukraine) (1768.01.27 – 1771.09.19), next promoted as first Bishop of Mukacheve of the Ruthenians (1771.09.19 – death 1772.07.04)
* Francisco Ramón Valentín de Casaus y Torres, Dominican Order
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(O.P.) (1807.03.23 – 1815.03.15) as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Antequera (Mexico
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) (1807.03.23 – 1815.03.15); later Metropolitan Archbishop of Guatemala
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(Guatemala
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) (1815.03.15 – 1845.11.10) and Apostolic Administrator
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of Diocese of La Habana (Cuba
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) (1836.02.24 – 1845.11.10)
* Bernard Angus MacEachern (1819.01.12 – 1829.08.11) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Québec (Canada
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) (1819.01.12 – 1829.08.11), later first Bishop of Charlottetown
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(Canada) (1829.08.11 – death 1835.04.23)
* François-Auguste-Ferdinand Donnet (1835.04.06 – 1837.05.19) as Coadjutor Bishop of Nancy (France) (1835.04.06 – 1837.05.19); later Metropolitan Archbishop of Bordeaux
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(France) (1837.05.19 – death 1882.12.22), created Cardinal-Priest
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of S. Maria in Via
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(1853.06.27 – 1882.12.22)
* Antonio Burbano, O.E.S.A. (1837.05.19 – death 1839?) as Auxiliary Bishop of Popayán
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(Colombia
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) (1837.05.19 – 1839?)
* Joannes Bocheński (1850.05.20 – death 1857.01.25) as Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv of the Ukrainians
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History Eparchy of Halych (1156 – 1406)
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(Byzantine Rite Metropolitanate, Ukraine) (1850.05.20 – 1857.01.25)
* Pietro Saulini (1876.06.26 – death 1878.02.28) as Bishop of Alatri
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(Italy) (1878.02.28 – 1887)
* Emmanuel-Marie-Ange de Briey (1880.02.27 – 1884.08.30) as Coadjutor Bishop
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of Meaux
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(France) ( 880.02.121880.02.27 – 1884.08.30), next succeeded as Bishop of Meaux (1884.08.30 – death 1909.12.11)
* Gennaro Portanova (1883.08.09 – 1885.02.01) as Coadjutor Bishop of Ischia
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(Italy) (1883.08.09 – 1885.02.01); later succeeding as Bishop of Ischia (1885.02.01 – 1888.03.16), Metropolitan Archbishop of Reggio Calabria
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(Italy) (1888.03.16 – 1908.04.25), created Cardinal-Priest
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of S. Clemente
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(1899.06.22 – 1908.04.25)
* Félix-Jules-Xavier Jourdan de la Passardière, Oratorians of Philip Neri
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(C.O.) (1884.10.03 – 1913.03.12) successively as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Grenoble
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(France) (1884.10.03 – 1885), Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Lyon
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(France) (1885 – 1887), Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Carthage
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(1887 – 1892), Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Rouen
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(France) (1892 – retired 1896) and emeritate
* Trudo Johannes Jans, O.F.M. (1923.12.13 – 1929.09.09) as last Apostolic Vicar
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of Southwestern Hupeh 湖北南境 (China) (1923.12.13 – 1924.12.03), restyled first Apostolic Vicar of Apostolic Vicar
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of Yichang
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宜昌 (China) (1924.12.03 – death 1929.09.09)
* José Garibi Rivera (1929.12.16 – 1934.12.22) as Auxiliary Bishop of Guadalajara (Mexico
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) (1929.12.16 – 1934.12.22); later Titular Archbishop
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of Bizya
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(1934.12.22 – 1936.02.18) as Coadjutor Archbishop The term coadjutor (or coadiutor, literally "co-assister" in Latin) is a title qualifier indicating that the holder shares the office with another person, with powers equal to the other in all but formal order of precedence.
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of Guadalajara
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(Mexico) (1934.12.22 – 1936.02.18), succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Guadalajara (Mexico) (1936.02.18 – retired 1969.03.01), created Cardinal-Priest
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of S. Onofrio
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(1958.12.18 – death 1972.05.27), President of Conferencia del Episcopado Mexicano (C.E.M.) (1960 – 1963)
* Heinrich Ritter, Holy Ghost Fathers
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(C.S.Sp.) (born Germany
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) (1935.09.06 – 1942.07.19) as first Bishop-Prelate
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of Territorial Prelature of Jurua
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(Brazil
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) (1935.09.06 – 1942.07.19)
* Marc Lacroix, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate
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(O.M.I.) (1942.12.18 – 1967.07.13) as last Apostolic Vicar
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of Hudson Bay
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(Canada
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) (1942.12.18 – 1967.07.13); next promoted first Bishop of Churchill
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(Canada) (1967.07.13 – 1968.01.29), restyled first Bishop of Churchill–Hudson Bay (Canada) (1968.01.29 – 1968.10.25), emeritate as Titular Bishop of Chullu (1968.10.25 – 1970.11.24).
References
Sources and external links
GCatholic - (former and) titular see
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; Bibliography
* Pius Bonifacius Gams, ''Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae'', Leipzig, 1931, p. 436
* Michel Lequien, ''Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus'', Paris, 1740, Tomo II, coll. 905-908
* Konrad Eubel, ''Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi'', vol. 1, p. 423 (note 4 on 'Rosensis'); vol. 2, pp. 224–225; vol. 3, p. 287; vol. 5, p. 334; vol. 6, p. 357
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