{{for, namesakes, Sila (disambiguation) Sila was ancient city and bishopric in Roman North Africa, which remains a Latin Catholic

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Sila, identified with modern Bordj-El-Ksar in present

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, was among the cities important enough in the

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(in the papal sway) to become one of its many

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s, yet destined to fade, possibly with the 7th century advent of Islam. Its only historically documented bishop, Donatus, was exiled in 484 by king Huneric of the Vandal Kingdom, like most attending Catholic bishops, unlike their Donatist (heretical) counterparts.

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The diocese was nominally restored in 1925 as Latin titular bishopric of Sila (Latin = Curiate Italian) / 錫拉 (正體中文) / Silen(sis) (Latin adjective). It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank ''or of higher archiepiscopal rank:'' *

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(1932.07.30 – 1939.04.15) as Auxiliary Bishop of

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(Mass., USA) (1932.07.30 – 1939.04.15); later Metropolitan Archbishop of

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(NY, USA) (1939.04.15 – death 1967.12.02) and

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(USA) (1939.12.11 – 1967.12.02), created Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo (1946.02.22 – 1967.12.02) * Thomas Arthur Connolly (1939.06.10 – 1950.05.18) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of San Francisco (Calif., USA) (1939.06.10 – 1948.02.28) and as

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of Roman Catholic Diocese of Seattle (Wash., USA) (1948.02.28 – 1950.05.18); next succeeded as last suffragan Bishop of Seattle (1950.05.18 – 1951.06.23), (see) promoted first Metropolitan Archbishop of

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(1951.06.23 – 1975.02.13), died 1991 * Cornelius Lucey (1950.11.14 – 1952.08.24) as Coadjutor Bishop of

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) (1950.11.14 – 1952.08.24); next succeeded as last Bishop of Cork (Ireland) (1952.08.24 – 1958.04.19), also

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of Diocese of Ross (Ireland) (1954 – 1958.04.19) succeeding and (see) restyled as first Bishop of Cork and Ross (1958.04.19 – retired 1980.08.23), died 1982 * Joseph Trương Cao Ðại (1953.01.08 – death 1969.06.29), as Apostolic Vicar of Hai Phòng (

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) (1953.01.08 – 1960) and on emeritate *'' Titular Archbishop: Alberto Rencoret Donoso (1970.05.18 – 1976.02.26) as emeritate, died 1978; previously last suffragan Bishop of

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) (1958.03.21 – 1963.05.10), (see) restyled first Metropolitan Archbishop of

(Chile) (1963.05.10 – 1970.05.18)'' * Michael Murphy (1976.04.01 – 1980.08.23) as Coadjutor Bishop of Cork and Ross (Ireland) (1976.04.01 – 1980.08.23); next succeeded as Bishop of Cork and Ross (1980.08.23 – death 1996.10.07) * Leoncio Leviste Lat (1980.10.30 – death 2002.11.06) first as Auxiliary Bishop of

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) (1980.10.30 – 1985), then as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Manila (Philippines) (1985 – retired 1992.12.12), finally as emeritus * ''Titular Archbishop:

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, Salesians (S.D.B.) (2002.12.19 – 2010.11.20) as Roman Curia official : Secretary of Roman Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (2002.12.19 – 2008.07.09), Prefect of Roman Congregation for the Causes of Saints (2008.07.09 – ...); previously

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of Salesian Pontifical University (1991.10.01 – 1991.12.02), Prelate-Secretary of

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(1999 – 2002.12.19); later created Cardinal-Deacon of

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''sede plena'' of

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Sources

* Pius Bonifacius Gams, ''Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae'', Leipzig 1931, p. 468 * Stefano Antonio Morcelli, ''Africa christiana'', Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 280
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