Titular diocese of Ascalon

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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
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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Titus Tobler: Third migration to Palestine in 1857: Ride through Philistäa. Online at Google Books , here p. 38.
  2. ↑ Steven Runciman: History of the Crusades. Munich: Beck 2001, p. 644.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ Online in the Google book search, see also painting in the parish church of St. Gallus, Bregenz

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