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Pella in Palaestina is an ancient and
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Pella in Palaestina is an ancient and titular diocese
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 ...
of the Roman Catholic Church
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also called the Diocese of ''Khirbet El-wahadneh'', and it is centered on Pella, Jordan
Pella ( gr, Πέλλα, ) was an ancient city in what is now northwest Jordan, containing ruins from the Neolithic, Chalcolithic,Bronze Age, Iron Age, Canaanite, Hellenistic and Islamic periods. It is located in a rich water source within the ea ...
.
History
Pella was an ancientbishopric
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 ...
in with a Christian community from before 70 AD.
Zebennus of Pella
It was a 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 ...
by the time Michel Le Quien
Michel Le Quien (8 October 1661, Boulogne-sur-Mer – 12 March 1733, Paris) was a French historian and theologian. He studied at Plessis College, Paris, and at twenty entered the Dominican convent in Faubourg Saint-Germain, where he made his pro ...
wrote.
Bishops
Known ancient bishops
* ZebenusRichard Price, Michael Gaddis, ''The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon'', Volume 1 (Liverpool University Press, 1 Jan 2005page361
Titular Catholic bishops
* Hieronim Maciej Jełowicki (21 Feb 1725 Appointed – 8 Jan 1732 ) * Stefan Olshavskyi (20 May 1735 Appointed – 24 Dec 1737 ) * Bartolomeo Antonio Passi (28 Sep 1744 Appointed – 23 Jul 1774) * Johann Nepomuk August Ungelter von Deisenhausen (12 Jul 1779 Appointed – 26 Feb 1804 ) * Johann Nepomuk von Dankesreither (24 Aug 1807 Appointed – 23 Sep 1816) * Ignaz Bernhard Mauermann (14 May 1819 Appointed – 14 Sep 1841) * Charles Michael Baggs (9 Jan 1844 Appointed – 16 Oct 1845) * Jean-Pierre Dalmond (28 Jan 1848 Appointed – ) * Alexandre-Hippolyte-Xavier Monnet (3 Oct 1848 Appointed – 1 Dec 1849) * Gustavo Leonardo de Battice (28 Dec 1877 Appointed – 13 Aug 1889) * François-Nicolas-Alphonse Kunemann (27 Feb 1901 Appointed – 20 Mar 1908 ) * Thomas Kurialachery (30 Aug 1911 Appointed – 21 Dec 1923 Appointed, Bishop of Changanacherry (Syro-Malabar
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, caption = The Mar Thoma Nasrani Sl ...
ese))
* William Francis Brown
William is a male given name of Germanic languages, Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norm ...
(29 Jan 1924 Appointed – 16 Dec 1951)
* Pedro Grau y Arola (24 Mar 1953 Appointed – 4 Mar 2002)
See also
*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
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