Titular diocese of Medaba

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Medaba 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 (today Madaba ), which was in the Roman province of Arabia Petraea (in today's Jordan ). The diocese was a suffragan of the ecclesiastical province Bostra assigned.

Titular Bishops of Medaba
No. Surname Office from to
1 Károly Gombos appointed auxiliary bishop in Kalocsa ( People's Republic of Hungary )
( resigned before episcopal ordination )
November 8, 1948 November 12, 1982
2 Maroun Lahham
Titular Archbishop pro hac vice
Auxiliary Bishop in Jerusalem ( Palestinian Territories , Israel , Jordan and Cyprus ) January 19, 2012

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