Arad (see)
{{short description|Titular Catholic episcopal see named after ancient Negev city}}
{{About|the titular Catholic see named after Arad in the Negev|the Romanian Orthodox see|Archdiocese of Arad}}
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The titular episcopal see of Arad is a Roman Catholic titular see named after the ancient city of Arad (see Tel Arad).{{cite web |title= Titular Episcopal See of Arad |date= 24 May 2025 |website= GCatholic.org (formerly Giga-Catholic Information) of Gabriel Chow, Toronto |url= https://gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t0170 |access-date= 25 May 2025}} List of bishops at [https://gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t0170?tab=bishops "Bishops"] link. Sources mention a 6th-century Bishop Stephan.{{cite encyclopedia |entry= Arad |encyclopedia= Encyklopedia katolicka |year= 1995 |orig-year= 1973 |lang= pl |volume= 1 (A and Ω – Baptists) |publisher= Scientific Society of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin |isbn= 83-86668-01-6 |url= https://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN8386668016 |access-date= 25 May 2025}}
History
The titular episcopal see of Arad is named for ancient Arad, which stood at the site of Tell 'Arad (Arabic) or Tel Arad (Hebrew), in the province of Palestina III, metropolinate of Petra{{dubious |1. Not clear what is meant: was there, as initially written here, "a diocese, suffragan of the Metropolitan of Petra", i.e. part of the Byzantine Church admin., or has it only been created as such in the 18th c.? Archaeologists claim that habitation at Arad ceased at the end of the Bar Kokhba revolt 135 CE, followed by a 500-year hiatus. No Byzantine city, so what are we talking about? A diocese based in a deserted place? |date= May 2025}} (see Archbishop of Petra and List of Catholic titular sees: Petra in Palaestina). The remains of ancient Arad were excavated in the Negev in modern Israel, but apparently no remains from the relevant period have been discovered.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored as a titular see of the lowest (episcopal) rank in 1725.{{citation needed |date= May 2025}}
It is vacant{{cite web |title= Arad (Titular See), Aradensis: Past and Present Ordinaries |website= catholic-hierarchy.org |url= https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d3a57.html |access-date= 25 May 2025}} since 1969 after having had the following, often non-consecutive incumbents:{{citation needed |date= May 2025}}
- Karol Poniński (1725–1727)
- Caspar Adolph Schnernauer (1728–1733)
- {{ill|Franz Joseph Anton von Hahn|de|Franz Joseph Anton von Hahn}} (1734–1748)
- Andrés Cano y Junquera (1748–1749){{cite web |title= Bishops who are not Ordinaries: C… – CAQ… |website= GCatholic.org |url= https://gcatholic.org/hierarchy/data/bishops-C |access-date= 25 May 2025}}
- Toussaint Duvernin (23 May 1757 – 1785)
- Julio Maria Pecori (d'Ameno), Franciscan (Order of Friars Minor Reform, O.F.M. Ref.; 1788–1796)
- Friar Ignacy Houwalt (1804–1807)
- {{ill|Giovanni Domenico Rizzolati|it|Giuseppe Maria Rizzolati}}, Franciscans (O.F.M.) (1839–1862)
- {{ill|Pedro José Tordoya Montoya|es|Pedro José Tordoya Montoya}} (1880–1881)
- Augustine Kandathil (1911–1923) (later archbishop)
- Pierre Aziz Ho (1924–1929)
- Jacob Abraham Theophilos Kalapurakal (Feb.–June 1932)
- {{ill|Pierre-Marie Gourtay|de|Pierre Gourtay}}, Spiritans (C.S.Sp.) (1933–1944)
- {{ill|Vicente Roig y Villalba|de|Vicente Roig y Villalba}}, Capuchins (O.F.M. Cap.) (1944–1969)
See also
External links
- Arad at Catholic Encyclopedia ([https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01677a.htm here] via New Advent, accessed May 2025)