Bosana was an ancient city and bishopric in
Roman Arabia, now a Latin Catholic
titular see
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.
History
Bosana, on the site of modern Busan in present
Syria
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, was important enough in the
Roman province
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of
Arabia Petraea
Arabia Petraea or Petrea, also known as Rome's Arabian Province or simply Arabia, was a frontier Roman province, province of the Roman Empire beginning in the 2nd century. It consisted of the former Nabataean Kingdom in the southern Levant, th ...
to become a
suffragan
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of the Metropolitan of capital
Bostra
Bosra (), formerly Bostra () and officially called Busra al-Sham (), is a town in southern Syria, administratively belonging to the Daraa District of the Daraa Governorate and geographically part of the Hauran region.
Bosra is an ancient cit ...
in the sway of the
Patriarchate of Antioch
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.
None of its bishops was recorded at any council. However archaeological and epigraphic evidence accounts for a single of its bishops : Menas (floruit 573). It probably faded at the seventh century advent of Islam.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as
Titular bishopric
A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular metropolitan" (highest rank), "titular archbish ...
of Bosana (Latin = Curiate Italian) / Bosanen(sis) (Latin adjective).
It is vacant since decades, having had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank :
* John Henry Tihen (1931.01.06 – death 1940.01.14) as emeritate; formerly Bishop of
Lincoln
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* Lincoln, England, cathedral city and county town of Lincolnshire, England
* Lincoln, Nebraska, the capital of Nebraska, U.S.
* Lincoln (na ...
(USA) (1911.05.12 – 1917.09.21), Bishop of
Denver
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(Colorado, USA) (1917.09.21 – 1931.01.06)
* Vincentas Brizgys (1940.04.02 – 1992.04.23) as
Auxiliary Bishop
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...
of
Archdiocese of Kaunas (
Lithuania
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) (1940.04.02 – 1992.04.23).
See also
*
List of Catholic dioceses in Syria
Sources and external links
GCatholic - (former &) titular see; Bibliography
* Siméon Vailhé, ''La province ecclésiastique d'Arabie'', in ''Échos d'Orient'', vol. 2, nº 2-4 (1899), p. 172
Catholic titular sees in Asia
Suppressed Roman Catholic dioceses
Archaeological sites in as-Suwayda Governorate