• Source: Arad (see)

      • Arad was an ancient city and bishopric and is now a Catholic titular see.


      History


      The ancient city was in the Roman province of Palestina III. It was a diocese, suffragan of the Metropolitan of Petra.
      Its remains are at Tell 'Arad in modern Israel.


      Titular see


      The diocese was nominally restored as a titular see of the lowest (episcopal) rank in 1725.
      It is vacant since 1969 after having had the following, often non-consecutive incumbents:

      Karol Poniński (1725.12.19 – 1727.09)
      Caspar Adolph Schnernauer (1728.05.10 – 1733.06.20)
      Franz Joseph Anton von Hahn (1734.03.27 – 1748.07.04)
      Andrés Cano y Junquera (1748.12.16 – 1770.09.10)
      Friar Ignacy Houwalt (1804.08.20 – 1807.05.05)
      Giovanni Domenico Rizzolati, Franciscans (O.F.M.) (1839.08.30 – 1862.04.13)
      Pedro José Tordoya Montoya (1880.08.20 – 1881)
      Augustine Kandathil (1911.08.29 – 1923.12.21) (later Archbishop)
      Pierre Aziz Ho (1924.01.16 – 1929.08.03)
      Jacob Abraham Theophilos Kalapurakal (1932.02.13 – 1932.06.11)
      Pierre-Marie Gourtay, Spiritans (C.S.Sp.) (1933.01.10 – 1944.09.16)
      Vicente Roig y Villalba, Capuchins (O.F.M. Cap.) (1944.12.15 – 1969.04.25)


      See also


      Catholic Church in Jordan


      References




      External links


      GigaCatholic, with titular bishop biographies

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