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    The Archbishop of Petra was the metropolitan bishop of the province of Palaestina Tertia. The Islamic conquest in the 7th century had eliminated Byzantine...
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    Yasser Ayyash, Archbishop of Petra and Philadelphia in Jordan. In October 2007, he was appointed patriarchal vicar for the archdiocese of Damascus. He was...
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    metropolitan archbishop of Petra from 1167 or 1168 until his death at the Siege of Acre in 1190 or 1191. He was the only archbishop of Petra from the Crusader...
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    Yasser Ayyash (category Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas alumni)
    1955, in Shatana in Irbid, Jordan) is a former archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Petra and Philadelphia in Amman and the current Melkite...
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    Francesco Saverio de Zelada (category Cardinal Secretaries of State)
    University of La Sapienza, gaining degrees in both canon and civil law. He was ordained on 23 October 1740. Zelada was appointed titular Archbishop of Petra on...
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    bearing the titles of Archbishop of Tyre, Archbishop of Caesarea, Archbishop of Nazareth and Archbishop of Petra—and a number of suffragan dioceses....
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  • was Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Petra and Philadelphia in Amman. Georges El-Murr was ordained a priest of the Order of St....
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    Girolamo Maria Gotti (category 19th-century Italian Roman Catholic titular archbishops)
    in Brazil. In 1892 Gotti became Titular Archbishop of Petra and Internuncio to Brazil. At the consistory of 29 November 1895 he was elevated to cardinal...
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  • August 1970) was the second archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Petra and Philadelphia in Amman...
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  • Evelio Díaz-Cía (category Roman Catholic archbishops of Havana)
    approval of the agrarian Reforms in the magazine Bohemia without knowing how it was to be implemented. Promoted to Titular Archbishop of Petra di Palestina...
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    Charles Duval, O.P. (February 25, 1896 – death July 31, 1904), Titular Archbishop of Petra (1895.11.29 – 1904.07.31), also Apostolic Delegate to Syria (1896...
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    Giuseppe Firrao Jr. (category 18th-century Italian Roman Catholic titular archbishops)
    titular archbishop of Petra in Palaestina and appointed nuncio in Venice on 8 April 1782. He became secretary of the Sacred Congregation of Bishops and...
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  • and his co-consecrators were Abraham Nehmé (Archbishop of Homs) and Georges El-Murr (Archbishop of Petra and Philadelphia). In this capacity he organized...
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    Luigi Sincero (category Cardinal-bishops of Palestrina)
    order of cardinal priests and his deaconry was elevated pro hac vice on 17 December 1928. Pope Pius appointed him titular archbishop of Petra di Palestina...
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    Bishop Bishop Joseph Gébara (later Archbishop) (July 21, 2014 – February 20, 2018), appointed Archbishop of Petra e Filadelfia (Melkite Greek), Jordan...
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  • Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Petra and Philadelphia in Amman (Latin: Archeparchy Petrensis et Philadelphiensis) is a branch of the Melkite Greek Catholic...
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  • Patriarch of Antioch, and his co-consecrators were André Haddad, BS (Archbishop of Zahle and Furzol) and Georges El-Murr, BC (Archbishop of Petra and Philadelphia)...
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    Jordanian Melkite Catholic hierarch, Archbishop of Petra and Philadelphia (1992–2007) and Patriarchal Exarch of Iraq (1997–2004). Giorgio Giacomelli,...
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  • Baalbek, Lebanon – died on 6 March 2003) was Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Petra and Philadelphia in Amman. Saba Youakim was...
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    see of Petra and appointed nuncio to the Kingdom of Bavaria on 23 May 1887. He was later appointed as Master of the Pontifical House and prefect of the...
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    Cardinals created by Gregory XVI (category Lists of cardinals by papal appointment)
    cardinal bishop of Porto e S. Rufina e Civitavecchia (11 July 1847), died 12 May 1854 Alessandro Giustiniani, titular archbishop of Petra, nuncio in Portugal...
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    was appointed Coadjutor Archbishop to John Cardinal McCloskey of New York on October 1, 1880, with the titular see of Petra, and succeeded to the archbishopric...
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  • José Domínguez Rodríguez (category Roman Catholic bishops of Matanzas)
    Cathedral of Havana along with Mons. Eduardo Boza-Masvidal by Mons. Evelio Díaz-Cía, Titular Archbishop of Petra di Palestina, co-adjutor sedis datus of Havana...
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  • One of nine children in the family, he was raised in an observant Melkite family; his maternal uncles included Paul Salman, the Archbishop of Petra and...
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  • BC (1997 - 23 June 2007 resigned), while Archepartch (Archbishop) of Petra and Philadelphia of the Greek-Melkites (Jordan) (26 August 1992 – resigned...
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    confirmed the decision of the Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre and struck Irenaios' name from the diptychs. Metropolitan Cornelius of Petra was chosen to serve...
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    under the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. The current archbishop of Crete is Eugenios II. The Church of Crete has been self-governing...
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  • Patriarch (1875–1882) Nikiphoros of Petra, Patriarch (1882–1882) Photios I, Patriarch (1882–1883) Nikiphoros of Petra, Patriarch (1883–1883) Nikodimos...
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    1199. The Archbishops regularly bore titles of "Primates of Serbia" (Primas Serviae), implemented as a permanent part of the title by Archbishop Stephen...
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    Giovanni Battista Braschi (category Italian Roman Catholic archbishop stubs)
    was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Titular Archbishop of Nisibis (1724–1736) and Bishop of Sarsina (1699–1724). Giovanni Battista Braschi was...
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