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Gera(s) was an ancient city and former bishopric in
Roman Egypt
, conventional_long_name = Roman Egypt
, common_name = Egypt
, subdivision = Province
, nation = the Roman Empire
, era = Late antiquity
, capital = Alexandria
, title_leader = Praefectus Augustalis
, image_map = Roman E ...
and remains a Latin Catholic
titular see
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.
Its modern location, now in
Egypt
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, is unclear.
History
Gera(s) was important enough in the Late
Roman province
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of
Augustamnica Prima
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Some ...
to be one of the
suffragan
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s of its capital
Pelusium
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's Metropolitan Archbishopric. It was however to fade completely.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored as a Latin Catholic
titular bishopric
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 ...
in the 18th century under the name Gerrha (Gerra in Curiate Italian), which was changed in 1925 to Gera(s).
It is vacant since decades, having had the following incumbents, all of the fitting episcopal (lowest) rank :
* Francisco Juan Leiza (1739.02.23 – 1747.10.24)
* Juan Francisco Manrique Lara (1749.09.22 – 1754.04.01)
* Alfonso Solís Grajera,
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(O.S.) (1757.07.18 – 1783.02.17)
* Fr. Dominicus Castells (1786.07.24 – 1788.07.23)
* Pablo Sitjar Ruata (1797.07.24 – 1808.03.16)
* James Buckley (1819.03.06 – 1828.03.26)
* Francesco Maria Zoppi (1833.04.15 – 1841.04)
*
Johannes Zwijsen
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(1842.01.24 – 1853.03.04) (later Archbishop of Utrecht)
*
Alexander Goss
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*
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(O.F.M.) (1879.09.22 – 1885.01.11)
* Henri-Charles-Camille Lambrecht (1886.03.26 – 1888.06.17) (later Bishop of Ghent)
* João Fernando Santiago Esberard (Esberrard) (1890.06.26 – 1891.05.12) (later Archbishop)
* Constant-Jean-Baptiste Prodhomme,
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*
Luca Ermenegildo Pasetto
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(O.F.M. Cap.) (1921.11.21 – 1937.09.22), as Secretary of
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(1935 – 1950.11.11), later
Titular Archbishop
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of
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(1937.09.22 – 1950.11.11),
Latin Titular Patriarch of Alexandria
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(1952.08.15 – 1957.09.12)
*
John Michael Fearns
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