The Diocese of Germa in Galatia or Germensis in Galatia is a suppressed see and now a

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of the

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. Its seat was at Germensis in Galatia (also known as Germocolonia or Germacolonia) in the province of

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in the civil diocese of Pontus (present day northern central

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). It formed part of the

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and was a suffragan see of the Archdiocese of Pessinus. Only one bishop of the see is known, Eustacius, who is mentioned as attending the Fourth Council of Constantinople in 879 which rehabilitated patriarch

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Titular see

It was revived as a titular see in 1916 and has been held by: * Jean Raynaud † (5 July 1916 – 25 November 1937 died) *

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† (2 January 1941 – 6 December 1941; translated to

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) * Angelo Rossini † (18 July 1942 – 10 March 1947; translated to

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) * Pietro Severi † (21 June 1948 – 8 January 1953; translated to

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) * Francesco Monaco † (12 December 1953 – 2 October 1956; later bishop of Caltanissetta) * Filippo Aglialoro † (5 October 1957 – 4 February 1988; died) *

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(8 April 1988 – 26 May 1992; translated to

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) * Paolo Gillet, from 7 December 1993

References

Sources

La sede titolare
nel sito di www.catholic-hierarchy.org
La sede titolare
nel sito di www.gcatholic.org {{sup, 'self-published''} *Pius Bonifacius Gams, ''Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae'', Leipzig 1931, p. 441 *Michel Lequien, ''Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus'', Paris, 1740, Vol. I, coll. 497–498 Germensis in Galatia