Pella (Palestine)
- See Pella for the Macedonian namesake
Pella (Palestine) was an Ancient city and bishopric in Palestine, which is now a Catholic titular see.
History
Pella was an Ancient city in the Roman province of Palestina Secunda, on the site of modern Tabakat-Fāhil. It was a bishopric, suffragan of the Metropolitan of Scitopoli.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored in 1725 as a Latin Catholic titular bishopric of the lowest (episcopal) rank.
It is vacant, after having had the following, often non-consecutive incumbents:
- Hieronim Maciej Jełowicki (1725.02.21 – 1732.01.08)
- Simon István Olsavszky (1735.05.20 – 1737.12.24)
- Bartolomeo Antonio Passi (1744.09.28 – 1774.07.23)
- Johann Nepomuk August Ungelter von Deisenhausen (1779.07.12 – 1804.02.26)
- Johann Nepomuk Ritter von Dankesreither (1807.08.24 – 1816.09.23)
- Ignaz Bernhard Mauermann (1819.01.31 – 1841.09.14)
- Charles Michael Baggs (1844.01.09 – 1845.10.16)
- Alexandre-Hippolyte-Xavier Monnet, Holy Ghost Fathers (C.S.Sp.) (1848.10.03 – 1849.12.01)
- Gustave Leonard de Battice (1877.12.28 – 1889.08.13)
- François-Nicolas-Alphonse Kunemann, C.S.Sp. (1901.02.27 – 1908.03.20)
- Thomas Kurialachery (1911.08.30 – 1923.12.21)
- William Francis Brown (1924.01.29 – 1951.12.16)
- Pedro Grau y Arola, Claretians (C.M.F.) (1953.03.24 – 2002.03.04)
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