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Arathia was a city and
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in the late
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of Cappadocia Prima,
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, whose ecclesiastical metropolis was at Caesarea (modern
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, Turkey).John Mason Neale, ''A History of the Holy Eastern Church'', I:75 London, 185
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/ref> Its location is unknown. The bishopric was revived as
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in the 18th century.


History

The ancient city was important enough to become a bishopric in the late
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of Cappadocia Prima (civil
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), in the sway of the
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, but would fade completely, plausibly at the advent of Islam. Neither its precise location is known, nor any residential bishop. * It has been confused in sources with the sees of Arad in Jordan (Holy Land) and Aradus in Syria (Phoenicia).


Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored as Latin Catholic
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no later than 1755 under the names Arathia / Arata (Curiate Italian) / Arath / Aratia (Latin) / Arathen(sis) / Arathien(sis) (Latin adjective). It has been vacant since 1853 (effectively suppressed?), having had the following incumbents, all of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank : * Richard Lincoln (1755.11.21 – 1757.06.21) as
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of
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) (1755.11.21 – 1757.06.21), later succeeded as Metropolitan Archbishop of Dublin (Ireland) (1757.06.21 – death 1763) * Toussaint Duvernin (1757.05.23 – 1785.08.08) as
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) (1757.05.23 – death 1785.08.08) * Andrzej Chołoniewski (1804.08.20 – 1819) as Auxiliary Bishop of
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) (1804.08.20 – death 1819) * Józef Marceli Dzięcielski (1819.12.17 – 1825.12.21) as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Kujawy–Kaliska (
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(Poland) (1825.12.21 – death 1839.02.14) * Francis Patrick Kenrick (1830.02.25 – 1842.04.22) as
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of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (USA) (1830.02.25 – 1842.04.22); later succeeded as Bishop of Philadelphia (1842.04.22 – 1851.08.19), Metropolitan Archbishop of
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(Maryland, USA) (1851.08.19 – death 1863.07.08) * Alexandre-Antonin Taché,
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(O.M.I.) (1850.06.12 – 1853.06.07) as Coadjutor Bishop of Saint-Boniface (
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; Bibliography * Konrad Eubel, ''Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi'', vol. 6, pp. 94–95; vol. 7, p. 85; vol. 8, p. 115 * Gaetano Moroni, lemma 'Cappadocia' in ''Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica da S. Pietro sino ai nostri giorni'', Venice, 1841, p. 93–95 Catholic titular sees in Asia Populated places of the Byzantine Empire Roman towns and cities in Turkey Former populated places in Turkey Populated places in ancient Cappadocia {{Byzantine-geo-stub