Titular diocese of Gadara
Gadara is a titular archbishopric of the Roman Catholic Church .
There were two titular dioceses under the name Gadara, one in the Roman province of Palestine I and another in Palestine II. This description obviously concerns the titular bishops of the titular bishopric of Gadara in the province of Palestine II. It belonged to the ecclesiastical province of Scythopolis .
This place is known today as Umm Qais in Jordan .
| Titular Bishop of Gadara | ||||
| No. | Surname | Office | from | to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Matthias Kanuti OSB | Auxiliary Bishop in Halberstadt (Germany) | July 9, 1492 | 1506 |
| 2 | Domingo Perez Rivera | Auxiliary Bishop in Seville ( Spain ) | March 6, 1741 | November 12, 1771 |
| 3 | Jan Benisławski SJ | Coadjutor Bishop of Mahiljou ( Belarus ) | 1783 | March 25, 1812 |
| 4th | Anton Gottfried Claessen | Auxiliary Bishop in Cologne | July 25, 1844 | September 29, 1847 |
| 5 | Joseph-Hyacinthe Sohier MEP | Apostolic Koadjutorvikar of Northern Cochin / Vicar Apostolic of Northern Cochin ( Vietnam ) | August 27, 1851 | September 3, 1876 |
| 6th | Edward McCabe | Auxiliary Bishop in Dublin ( Ireland ) | June 26, 1877 | April 4, 1879 |
| 7th | José Macchi | Auxiliary Bishop in Palestrina ( Italy ) | February 27, 1880 | April 3, 1889 |
| 8th | Giuseppe Schirò | July 13, 1889 | November 29, 1895 | |
| 9 | Nicolae Iosif Camilli | Bishop emeritus of Iași ( Romania ) | December 12, 1895 | February 26, 1901 |
| 10 | Wenceslaus Frind | Auxiliary Bishop in Prague ( Czechoslovakia ) | July 15, 1901 | September 2, 1932 |
| 11 | Martial-Pierre-Mari Jannin MEP | Vicar Apostolic of Kontum (Vietnam) | January 10, 1933 | July 16, 1940 |
| 12 | Jean Cassaigne MEP | Vicar Apostolic of Saigon (Vietnam) | February 20, 1941 | October 31, 1973 |