Mathara was an Ancient city and suffragan bishopric in the

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, in present

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Titular see

In 1933, the bishopric was nominally revived as

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, of the lowest (episcopal) rank, with a single exception, the present, archiepiscopal incumbent. It had following incumbents, mostly Latin: * Laurenz Böggering (25 July 1967 – 10 January 1996) * Alois Schwarz (27 December 1996 – 22 May 2001) * David Motiuk (5 April 2002 – 25 January 2007) * Franz-Josef Overbeck (18 July 2007 – 28 October 2009) * Lisane-Christos Matheos Semahun (5 January 2010 – 19 January 2015), then auxiliary eparch of the Eastern Catholic (Alexandrian Rite) Metropolitan

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; next appointed suffragan of that Metropolitan in the newly created Ethiopian Catholic Eparchy of Bahir Dar–Dessie * Titular Archbishop

Ghaleb Moussa Abdalla Bader Ghaleb Moussa Abdalla Bader (Arabic: غالب موسى عبد الله بدر; born 22 July 1951) is a Jordanian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the apostolic nuncio to the Dominican Republic and apostolic delegate to Puerto Rico. ...

(23 May 2015—), Apostolic Nuncio to the

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, Apostolic Delegate to

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References

GigaCatholic, with titular incumbent biography links
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