Titular diocese of Ascalon
Ascalon is a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church . The Byzantine bishopric in the city was lost when it was conquered by the Arabs in 635. After the conquest of Ascalon in 1153 by the Crusaders, a Latin diocese was established here in 1158, which, however, was united with the diocese of Bethlehem through the objection of the Bishop of Bethlehem to the Pope. The city, like Bethlehem, was conquered by Saladin in 1187 and the bishopric was again destroyed.
history
By the beginning of the 4th century at the latest, a bishopric was built in Ascalon. The list of bishops of the First Council of Nicaea also names Sabinus, the first bishop of Ascalon. With the conquest of the city in 635 by the Arabs, the bishopric went under again.
List of early Christian bishops
- 325 Sabinus
- 381 auxentius
- 415 Leontius
- 536 Dionysius
Crusader time
Shortly after 1100 crusaders founded the Latin diocese of Askalon in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, which was, however, united with the diocese of Bethlehem just a few years later and to which Anzetin, the first bishop of Askalon, moved. At that time, the city of Ascalon itself was still in the hands of the Muslims, and only a few peripheral areas, which were in Christian hands, formed the diocese. When the Crusaders conquered the city in 1153, they again established a diocese. The driving force behind this was the Patriarch of Jerusalem . The first bishop was Absalom, who was previously canon in the Church of St. Paul in Askalon. The Bishop of Bethlehem took action against this and sued the Pope. This reunited the diocese of Askalon with the diocese of Bethlehem. In 1169, the former bishop Absalon was referred to as quondam Ascalonensis episcopus (former bishop of Ascalon) and the union with the diocese of Bethlehem was completed. In 1187, Saladin captured Ascalon , expelled the population and razed the fortifications. In 1192 it was recaptured under Richard the Lionheart . After that, it lay in ruins in virtually no man's land until it was reoccupied and fortified by the Crusaders in 1239. In 1247 it was finally conquered by the Muslims, but was not repopulated.
List of the titular bishops of Ascalon
Ascalon became titular bishopric, the title of bishop of Ascalon and Bethlehem was mostly given to the Mainz auxiliary bishops based in Erfurt in the 16th and 17th centuries .
No. | Surname | Office | from | to |
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1 | Kaspar Grünwald OP | Auxiliary Bishop in Würzburg ( Germany ) | November 7, 1498 | October 31, 1512 |
2 | Paul Huthenne | Auxiliary Bishop in Mainz (for Erfurt) (Germany) | January 19, 1509 | April 28, 1532 |
3 | Johann Spyser | Auxiliary Bishop in Konstanz (Germany) | January 24, 1518 | July 31, 1518 |
4th | Melchior Fattlin | Auxiliary Bishop in Konstanz (Germany) | November 15, 1518 | October 25, 1548 |
5 | Maternus Pistor | Auxiliary Bishop in Mainz (for Erfurt) (Germany) | January 19, 1534 | September 5, 1534 |
6th | Jakob Eliner | Auxiliary Bishop in Konstanz (Germany) | January 19, 1551 | April 14, 1574 |
7th | Wolfgang Westermeyer | Auxiliary Bishop in Mainz (for Erfurt) (Germany) | October 5, 1551 | May 31, 1568 |
8th | Balthasar Wurer | Auxiliary Bishop in Konstanz (Germany) | July 28, 1574 | February 9, 1606 |
9 | Nikolaus Elgard | Auxiliary Bishop in Mainz (for Erfurt) (Germany) | June 3, 1577 | August 11, 1587 |
10 | Valentin Mohr OSB | Auxiliary Bishop in Mainz (for Erfurt) (Germany) | May 31, 1606 | October 21, 1608 |
11 | Cornelius Gobelius | Auxiliary Bishop in Mainz (Germany) | December 14, 1609 | June 7, 1611 |
12 | Christoph Weber | Auxiliary Bishop in Mainz (Germany) | February 8, 1615 | May 21, 1633 |
13 | Jerónimo González | Auxiliary Bishop in Plasencia ( Spain ) | October 26, 1622 | |
14th | Heinrich Wolther von Strevesdorff | Auxiliary Bishop in Mainz (Germany) | October 1, 1634 | May 7, 1674 |
15th | Francisco Garcia Mendes SJ | Coadjutor Archbishop of Cranganore (Angamala) ( India ) | June 23, 1636 | December 2, 1641 |
16 | François Deydier MEP | Vicar Apostolic of East Tonking ( Vietnam ) | November 25, 1678 | July 1, 1693 |
17th | Álvaro Benavente OESA | Vicar Apostolic of Kiam-Si ( China ) | October 20, 1698 | March 20, 1709 |
18th | Dominique-Marie Varlet | Coadjutor Bishop of Baghdad ( Iraq ) | September 17, 1718 | February 20, 1719 |
19th | Gioacchino Maria Pontalti OCarm | emeritus bishop of Hvar ( Croatia ) | April 13, 1767 | July 19, 1772 |
20th | Franz Maria Karl Cajetan by Firmian | Auxiliary Bishop in Passau (Germany) | December 20, 1773 | 17th August 1776 |
21st | Jean-Marie Cuchot d'Herbain | Auxiliary Bishop in Trier (Germany) | January 15, 1778 | October 31, 1801 |
22nd | Ignazio de Bisogno | September 28, 1849 | 1865 | |
23 | Johann Gabriel Louis Léon Meurin SJ | Vicar Apostolic of Bombay (India) | March 27, 1867 | September 15, 1887 |
24 | Domenico Maria Valensise | Coadjutor Bishop of Nicastro ( Italy ) | June 1, 1888 | March 7, 1891 |
25th | Francis Edward Joseph Mostyn | Vicar Apostolic of Wales ( Great Britain ) | 4th July 1895 | May 14, 1898 |
26th | Alejandro Cañál OP | Vicar Apostolic of Amoy (China) | October 28, 1898 | November 23, 1898 |
27 | Luigi Finoja | Coadjutor Bishop of Catanzaro ( Italy ) | September 11, 1899 | June 2, 1900 |
28 | Giovanni Régine | June 9, 1902 | October 4, 1902 | |
29 | Isidoro Badía y Sarradel | Auxiliary Bishop in Toledo Apostolic Administrator of Barbastro (Spain) |
January 9, 1903 | June 27, 1917 |
30th | Wojciech Stanisław Owczarek | Auxiliary Bishop in Włocławek (Kujawy, Kalisze) ( Poland ) | July 29, 1918 | September 30, 1938 |
31 | Paul-Laurent-Jean-Louis Mazé SSCC | Vicar Apostolic of Tahiti ( French Polynesia ) | November 8, 1938 | June 21, 1966 |
See also
literature
- Hans Eberhard Mayer : Dioceses, monasteries and monasteries in the Kingdom of Jerusalem (MGH 26). Stuttgart 1977. ISBN 3-7772-7719-3
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Titus Tobler: Third migration to Palestine in 1857: Ride through Philistäa. Online at Google Books , here p. 38.
- ↑ Steven Runciman: History of the Crusades. Munich: Beck 2001, p. 644.
- ↑ Denys Pringle: The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. A corpus. Volume I AK (excluding Acre and Jerusalem). Cambridge University Press, 1993 ISBN 978-0-521-85148-0 , here pp. 62/63.
- ↑ Online in the Google book search, see also painting in the parish church of St. Gallus, Bregenz