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Gera(s) was an ancient city and former bishopric in
Roman Egypt
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and remains a Latin Catholic
titular see
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.
Its modern location, now in
Egypt
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, is unclear. Gera(s) was important enough in the Late
Roman province
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of
Augustamnica Prima
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Som ...
to be one of the
suffragan
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s of its capital
Pelusium
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's Metropolitan Archbishopric. It was however to fade completely.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored as a Latin Catholic
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 ...
in the 18th century under the name ''Gerrha'' (Gerra in Curiate Italian), which was changed in 1925 to ''Gera(s)''.
It is vacant since decades, having had the following incumbents, all of the fitting episcopal (lowest) rank:
* Francisco Juan Leiza (1739.02.23 – 1747.10.24)
* Juan Francisco Manrique Lara (1749.09.22 – 1754.04.01)
* Alfonso Solís Grajera, OS (1757.07.18 – 1783.02.17)
* Fr. Dominicus Castells (1786.07.24 – 1788.07.23)
* Pablo Sitjar Ruata (1797.07.24 – 1808.03.16)
* James Buckley (1819.03.06 – 1828.03.26)
* Francesco Maria Zoppi (1833.04.15 – 1841.04)
*
Johannes Zwijsen
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Early life and priesthood ...
(1842.01.24 – 1853.03.04) (later Archbishop of Utrecht)
*
Alexander Goss
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Biography
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(1853.07.29 – 1856.01.25) (later Bishop of Liverpool)
*
Henri-Charles Lambrecht
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Born in a small town near Oudenaarde, Lambrecht was educated in the local school. After his studies in St. Joseph Minor Seminary and the Major Seminar ...
(1886.03.26 – 1888.06.17) (later Bishop of Ghent)
* João Fernando Santiago Esberard (Esberrard) (1890.06.26 – 1891.05.12) (later Archbishop)
* Constant-Jean-Baptiste Prodhomme, MEP (1913.06.02 – 1920.08.20)
* Luca Ermenegildo Pasetto, OFMConv (1921.11.21 – 1937.09.22), as Secretary of
Sacred Congregation of Religious
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(1935 – 1950.11.11), later
Titular Archbishop
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of
Iconium
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Jacinto Argaya Goicoechea
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(1952.08.15 – 1957.09.12)
*
John Michael Fearns
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