Erythrum was a city and bishopric in

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, which remains a Catholic

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. The city, identified with modern Uaili-Et-Trun, was important enough in the

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of (Creta and)

Cyrenaica Cyrenaica ( ) or Kyrenaika ( ar, برقة, Barqah, grc-koi, Κυρηναϊκή ��παρχίαKurēnaïkḗ parkhíā}, after the city of Cyrene), is the eastern region of Libya. Cyrenaica includes all of the eastern part of Libya between ...

and later the split-off province

Libya Superior Cyrenaica ( ) or Kyrenaika ( ar, برقة, Barqah, grc-koi, Κυρηναϊκή ��παρχίαKurēnaïkḗ parkhíā}, after the city of Cyrene), is the eastern region of Libya. Cyrenaica includes all of the eastern part of Libya between ...

or Libya Pentapolitana to become a suffragan of its capital's Metropolitan of Cyrene. Cyrenaica was conquered by Muslim

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during the tenure of the second

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, Omer Bin Khattab, in 643/44, After the breakdown of the

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it was essentially annexed to Egypt, although still under the same name, first under the

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caliphs and later under the Ayyubid and

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sultanates. Ultimately, it was annexed by the Turkish

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in 1517 when it was part of the

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Christian bishopric

The Diocese of Erythron was a center of

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in the Pentapolis of North Africa. It was an early Christian

bishopric 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 ...

. The seat of the Diocese was the Roman town of Erython, tentatively identified with the village of Uaili-Et-Trun in today's

Libya Libya (; ar, ليبيا, Lībiyā), officially the State of Libya ( ar, دولة ليبيا, Dawlat Lībiyā), is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Suda ...

. We know of four

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s of the

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from antiquity. * Orione (2nd century) * Sabbazio * Paolo * Theophilo ( fl.451) The

was nominally restored in 1933 as

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under the names of Erythrum (Latine) / Eritro (Curiate Italian) / Erythritan(us) (Latin adjective)., It has been vacant for decades, having had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank, ''including an

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:'' * Antonio Cavaleri (1764.04.09 – 1788.09.15) as Auxiliary Bishop of

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(

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, insular Italy) (1764.04.09 – 1788.09.15); succeeded as Bishop of Agrigento (1788.09.15 – death 1792.12.11) * Raimondo A. Vecchietti (1797.07.24 – 1801.01.26) without prelature, later Bishop of

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(Italy) (1801.01.26 – death 1805.02) * Michele de Vincenti (1817.04.14 – death 1827), without prelature * Giovanni Battista Rosani,

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(Sch. P.) (born Italy) (1844.01.22 – death 1862.08.08) as President of Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy (1844.01.22 – 1847) and on emeritate * Giovanni Felix Jacovacci (1863.10.01 – 1879.06.10) (born Italy), no prelature * Victor van den Branden de Reeth) (1879.11.14 – 1897.12.04) as Auxiliary Bishop of Mechelen (Belgium) (1879.11.14 – 1909.02.27); later on emeritate 'promoted' as

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of Tyrus (Tyre) (1897.12.04 – death 1909.02.27) *'' Ghebre Jesus Jacob (1951.02.24 – death 1969.01.22) as

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of Asmara of the Eritreans (

in Eritrea) (1951.02.24 – 1958.02.03) and on emeritate.''

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