Bishop Petros with Saint Peter the Apostle, wall painting from the Faras Cathedral (National Museum in Warsaw).Bishop Marianos of Pakhoras supported by Madonna and Child, as depicted in the wall painting from the Faras Cathedral (National Museum in Warsaw).
The Diocese of Faras was a Christian bishopric in Nobadia during the Middle Ages and is today a titular see of the Coptic Orthodox Church. Its seat was originally at Faras (Pakhoras). Later, its bishops sat at Qasr Ibrim.
Despite Faras's submersion following the building of the Aswan High Dam, the see is still claimed by the Coptic church's Titular Bishop of the Great and Ancient Metropolis of Nubia, who is styled Bishop of Faras of Nobatia. The current ordinary is Bishop Sarapamon (Serapis Amon).
The DioceseofFaras was a Christian bishopric in Nobadia during the Middle Ages and is today a titular see of the Coptic Orthodox Church. Its seat was...
to Faras. Faras Gallery in the National Museum in Warsaw Faras - the salvage excavations Polish excavations at Faras, video on YouTube Description of exhibition...
Faras Cathedral was a cathedral in the Lower Nubian city ofFaras. It was the original seat of the DioceseofFaras. Nobadian rulers controlling the Nile...
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Martino in Valle (Italian for Abbey of San Martino in Valle) is a medieval abbey in Fara San Martino, Province of Chieti (Abruzzo). The earliest historical...
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ofFara Sabina, of which it is also a frazione (hamlet). In 2016 it was added to the "tentative" list to be a UNESCO World Heritage Site, as part of a...
time the Dioceseof York roughly encompassed the counties of Yorkshire and Lancashire. Hexham covered County Durham and the southern part of modern Northumberland...
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Constitution of Pakistan, Notes for Part III, Chapter 3". Pakistani.org. Archived from the original on 2009-11-10. Retrieved 2013-02-18. Ghani, Faras (14 Dec...
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580 AD Christianity had become the official religion of the northern Sudan, centered around the Faras cathedral. During the 19th century, British missionaries...
(the Archdiocese of Khartoum) and one suffragan diocese (the dioceseof El Obeid). The vast majority of Sudan's Catholics ended up in South Sudan after...
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The Dioceseof Foligno (Latin: Dioecesis Fulginatensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or dioceseof the Catholic Church in Umbria, Italy....
total of 121 members. The Roman Catholic congregation has about 270 members and falls under the jurisdiction of Denmark's Roman Catholic Dioceseof Copenhagen...
the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome until the 8th century AD. Then, dioceses in Albania were transferred to the patriarchate of Constantinople. In...
educated by Bishop Otreius of Melitene, who afterwards ordained him and placed him in charge of all the monasteries in the Dioceseof Melitene. In 405/406,...
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