Diocese of Pella explained

Pella in Palaestina is an ancient and titular diocese of the Roman Catholic Church also called the Diocese of Khirbet El-wahadneh, and it is centered on Pella, Jordan.^[1]

History

Pella was an ancient bishopric in ^[2] with a Christian community from before 70 AD.

Zebennus of Pella^[3]

It was a titular see by the time Michel Le Quien wrote.^[4]

Bishops

Known ancient bishops

• Zebenus^[5]

Titular Catholic bishops

• Hieronim Maciej Jełowicki (21 Feb 1725 Appointed – 8 Jan 1732)
• Stefan Olshavskyi (20 May 1735 Appointed – 24 Dec 1737)
• Bartolomeo Antonio Passi (28 Sep 1744 Appointed – 23 Jul 1774)
• Johann Nepomuk August Ungelter von Deisenhausen (12 Jul 1779 Appointed – 26 Feb 1804)
• Johann Nepomuk von Dankesreither (24 Aug 1807 Appointed – 23 Sep 1816)
• Ignaz Bernhard Mauermann (14 May 1819 Appointed – 14 Sep 1841)
• Charles Michael Baggs (9 Jan 1844 Appointed – 16 Oct 1845)
• Jean-Pierre Dalmond (28 Jan 1848 Appointed –)
• Alexandre-Hippolyte-Xavier Monnet (3 Oct 1848 Appointed – 1 Dec 1849)
• Gustavo Leonardo de Battice (28 Dec 1877 Appointed – 13 Aug 1889)
• François-Nicolas-Alphonse Kunemann (27 Feb 1901 Appointed – 20 Mar 1908)
• Thomas Kurialachery (30 Aug 1911 Appointed – 21 Dec 1923 Appointed, Bishop of Changanacherry (Syro-Malabarese))
• William Francis Brown (29 Jan 1924 Appointed – 16 Dec 1951)
• Pedro Grau y Arola (24 Mar 1953 Appointed – 4 Mar 2002)

See also

• Catholic Church in Jordan

Notes and References

1. By W. M. Ramsay, The Historical Geography of Asia Minor p169.
2. Joseph Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticae; Or the Antiquities of the Christian ..., Volume 3 p61.
3. Richard Price, Michael Gaddis, The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon, Volume 1 (Liverpool University Press, 2005) p352.
4. Michel Le Quien, Oriens christianus: in quatuor patriarchatus digestus (ex Typographia Regia, 1740)p?.
5. Richard Price, Michael Gaddis, The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon, Volume 1 (Liverpool University Press, 1 Jan 2005) page361.