Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. VI, 1951 Ecclesiastical hierarchy Patriarchates, archdioceses, dioceses, suppressed dioceses

Gezira (Gazireh), Diocese of

GEZIRA (GAZIREH), DIOCESI DI

By Ignazio Ortiz de Urbina

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Upper Gezira of the Chaldeans, Upper Gezira of the Syrians, Gazirer redirect here.

Also known as: Al-Jazira, Gezireh; French: Djezireh; Italian: Gazira

GEZIRA (GAZIREH), DIOCESE OF. - 1. Residential see of a patriarchal vicariate of the Syrians for this region. The G., a vast plain in northern Syria, before the war of 1915-18 was frequented only by nomadic tribes. After the war emigrants flowed in, amounting to ca. 100,000. The Catholic Syrians are, according to the latest data, 5,600, assisted by 10 priests. The patriarch, in 1933, sent them a vicar of his, because the diocese of G., destroyed in the years 1914-18, has not yet been reconstituted.

2. Diocese of the Chaldeans, erected in 1852, which comprises 2 churches and 3,107 faithful, assisted by 11 priests.

Bibliography2 works

BIBL.: Statistique des catholiques de vie chaldée du patriarcat de Babylone, in Orient. Chr. Per., 4 (1938), p. 274; Annunzio Pontificio 1949, p. 190.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI (1951), col. 292.

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Ortiz, de Urbina Ignazio. “Gezira (Gazireh), diocesi di.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, col. 292. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/gezira-gazireh-diocesi-di.

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Ortiz, de Urbina Ignazio. “Gezira (Gazireh), diocesi di.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 292. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/gezira-gazireh-diocesi-di.

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  author    = {Ortiz, de Urbina Ignazio},
  title     = {Gezira (Gazireh), diocesi di},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {VI},
  pages     = {292},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1951},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/gezira-gazireh-diocesi-di}
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