Titular diocese of Adraa

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Adraa ( Adrana ) is a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church .

It goes back to a lost bishop's seat in the ancient city of the same name , which was in the Roman province of Arabia Petraea (in today's Jordan ). He was a suffragan of the ecclesiastical province Bostra assigned.

Titular Bishops of Adraa
No. Surname Office from to
1 Antonio Sellent Auxiliary Bishop in Cagliari ( Italy ) March 2, 1712
2 Johann Rudolf von Sporck Auxiliary Bishop in Prague ( Bohemia ) February 7, 1729 January 21, 1759
3 Ignacy Kozierowski CRL Auxiliary Bishop in Gniezno ( Poland ) November 22, 1762 1791
4th Pierre-Joseph-Georges Pigneau de Béhaine MEP Vicar Apostolic of Cochinchina ( Vietnam ) September 24, 1771 October 9, 1799
5 Michał Pałucki Auxiliary Bishop in Kiev ( Ukraine ) December 19, 1791
6th Jean-André Doussain MEP Coadjutor Apostolic Vicar of Cochinchina ( Vietnam ) July 23, 1798 December 14, 1809
7th Juan Arciniega Auxiliary Bishop in Toledo ( Spain ) September 23, 1816 January 2, 1835
8th Jean-Joseph Audemar MEP Coadjutor Apostolic Vicar of Cochinchina (Vietnam) 1817 August 8, 1821
9 Antonio van Dyk Coadjutor Apostolic Vicar of Breda ( Netherlands ) December 11, 1846 July 13, 1848
10 Joannes van Breugel Coadjutor Apostolic Vicar of Breda (Netherlands) January 31, 1849 January 15, 1850
11 Johannes van Genk Apostolic Coadjutor Vicar of Breda / Coadjutor Bishop of Breda (Netherlands) March 22, 1850 April 25, 1868
12 Johann Evangelist Haller Auxiliary Bishop in Trento
Auxiliary Bishop in Salzburg ( Austria-Hungary )
August 14, 1874 June 26, 1890
13 Saint Antonino Fantosati OFM Vicar Apostolic of Hu-Nan Meridionale ( China ) April 5, 1892 July 7, 1900
14th Orico Giuseppe Rizzi OFM Vicar Apostolic of North Shaanxi (China) January 23, 1902 March 22, 1905
15th Auguste Prézeau Vicar Apostolic of Shiré ( Nyasaland ) April 12, 1908 December 2, 1909
16 Francisco Xavier Ricardo Vilá y Mateu OFMCap Vicar Apostolic of Guam ( Pacific Ocean ) August 25, 1911 January 5, 1913
17th Ramón Zubieta y Les OP Vicar Apostolic of Urubamba y Madre de Dios ( Peru ) 4th July 1913 November 19, 1921
18th Joseph Stoffels Auxiliary Bishop in Cologne ( Germany ) November 11, 1922 October 17, 1923
19th Josef Kupka Auxiliary Bishop in Brno ( Czechoslovak Republic ) April 10, 1924 October 22, 1931
20th Leon Jean Marie De Smedt CICM Vicar Apostolic of Siwantze (China) December 14, 1931 April 11, 1946
21st James Holmes-Siedle MAfr Apostolic Vicar of Karema ( Tanganyika ) / ( Tanzania ) July 29, 1946 March 25, 1953
22nd Richard Lester Guilly SJ Vicar Apostolic of British Guiana ( West Indies ) July 18, 1954 February 29, 1956
23 Elias Mchonde Auxiliary Bishop in Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania) March 24, 1956 April 21, 1964

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