Titular diocese of Arathia

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Arathia was a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church .

It goes back to the ancient bishopric of the same name in the Roman province of Cappadocia prima in the east of today's Turkey. After 1853 it was no longer assigned as a titular bishopric.

Titular Bishops of Arathia
No. Surname Office from to
1 Andrzej Chołoniewski Auxiliary Bishop in Vilnius ( Lithuania ) August 20, 1804 1819
2 Józef Marcelin Dzięcielski Auxiliary Bishop in Kujawien-Kalisz ( Poland ) December 17, 1819 December 19, 1825
3 Francis Patrick Kenrick Coadjutor Bishop of Philadelphia ( United States ) February 26, 1830 April 22, 1842
4th Alexandre-Antonin Taché OMI Coadjutor Bishop of Saint-Boniface ( Canada ) June 14, 1850 June 7, 1853

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Individual evidence

  1. Cappadocia , in: Gaetano Moroni: Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica da S. Pietro sino ai nostri giorni , Venice 1841, pp. 93-95