:''See Hiero(n) for namesakes'' Hieron (in Caria) was an ancient city and former bishopric in

ancient Caria Caria (; from Greek: Καρία, ''Karia''; tr, Karya) was a region of western Anatolia extending along the coast from mid-Ionia (Mycale) south to Lycia and east to Phrygia. The Ionian and Dorian Greeks colonized the west of it and joined the ...

Asia Minor Anatolia, tr, Anadolu Yarımadası), and the Anatolian plateau, also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula in Western Asia and the westernmost protrusion of the Asian continent. It constitutes the major part of modern-day Turkey. The re ...

, which remains a Latin Catholic

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as Hieron.

History

Hieron, now Avsarkale in

Asian Turkey Anatolia, tr, Anadolu Yarımadası), and the Anatolian plateau, also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula in Western Asia and the westernmost protrusion of the Asian continent. It constitutes the major part of modern-day Turkey. The reg ...

, was important enough in the

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Caria Caria (; from Greek: Καρία, ''Karia''; tr, Karya) was a region of western Anatolia extending along the coast from mid-Ionia (Mycale) south to Lycia and east to Phrygia. The Ionians, Ionian and Dorians, Dorian Greeks colonized the west of i ...

(civil

Diocese of Asia The Diocese of Asia ( la, Dioecesis Asiana, el, Διοίκησις Ἀσίας/Άσιανῆς) was a diocese of the later Roman Empire, incorporating the provinces of western Asia Minor and the islands of the eastern Aegean Sea. The diocese was ...

) to become a

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of its capital Stauropolis's Metropolitan, in the sway of the

Patriarchate of Constantinople The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople ( el, Οἰκουμενικὸν Πατριαρχεῖον Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, translit=Oikoumenikón Patriarkhíon Konstantinoupóleos, ; la, Patriarchatus Oecumenicus Constanti ...

. It has no historically documented bishops, but was mentioned in the

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, from the edition of pseudo-Epifanio, under emperor

Heraclius I Heraclius ( grc-gre, Ἡράκλειος, Hērákleios; c. 575 – 11 February 641), was Eastern Roman emperor from 610 to 641. His rise to power began in 608, when he and his father, Heraclius the Elder, the exarch of Africa, led a revolt ...

(circa 640), until

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(early tenth century) and existed still in the thirteenth century.Vincenzo Ruggiari, ''A historical Addendum to the episcopal Lists of Caria'', in ''Revue des études byzantines'', 1996, Volume 54, Nr. 54, p. 233.

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored in 1933: Established as Latin

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of Hieron (Latin) / Geron (Curiate Italian) / Hieritan(us) (Latin adjective) It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank : * Theodor Breher (白化東 / 브레허 白화동 주교),

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(O.S.B.) (1937.04.13 – 1946.04.11) as only

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延吉 (China) (1937.04.13 – 1946.04.11); previously only

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延吉 (China) (1929.02.05 – 1937.04.13); later first Bishop of

延吉 (China) (1946.04.11 – death 1950.11.02) * John Louis Morkovsky (1955.12.22 – 1958.08.18) as Auxiliary Bishop of

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(Texas, USA) (1955.12.22 – 1958.08.18); later succeeded as Bishop of Amarillo (1958.08.18 – 1963.04.16), Titular Bishop of

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(1963.04.16 – 1975.04.22) as

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of Galveston–Houston (Texas, USA) (1963.04.16 – 1975.04.22) succeeding as Bishop of Galveston–Houston (USA) (1975.04.22 – retired 1984.08.21), died 1990 * Léo Blais (1959.03.18 – death 1991.01.21) as emeritate, previously Bishop of Prince-Albert (

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) (1952.07.04 – 1959.02.28) and Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Montréal (

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, Canada) (1959.03.18 – 1971.05.11) * Gerard Clifford (1991.03.25 – death 2016.12.12), first as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Armagh (

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, UK) (1991.03.25 – 2013.02.27) and as emeritate * Michael Joseph Boulette (2017.01.23 – ...) as Auxiliary Bishop of

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(

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, USA) (2017.01.23 – ...).

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