Drâa-El-Gamra
Drâa-El-Gamra is an archaeological site in Tunisia, the site of the ancient city of Gor. It remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
History
In Antiquity the location was known as Gor. It was originally a Punic city. The Roman era civitas, mentioned by Saint Augustine, was located beside the aqueduct to Carthage.Drâa-El-Gamra was the seat of an ancient episcopal see of the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis.
Only two bishops are historically known. Victor took part in the council held at Carthage in 256 by Saint Cyprian to discuss the question of the lapsi. Restitutus intervened at the Council of Carthage (411).
Like most of the many suffragans of Carthage, it faded.
Titular see
Gor was nominally restored as a Latin titular bishopric in 1933.It has had the following incumbents, all of the fitting episcopal rank:
- Emanuele Hanisch, Mill Hill Missionaries, as first Apostolic Vicar of Umtata, promoted as last Apostolic Prefect of Umtata
- Eliseu van der Weijer, Carmelites as only-ever Bishop-Prelate of Territorial Prelature of Paracatu ; previously Apostolic Administrator of above Paracatu
- Ramón Salas Valdés, Jesuits as Bishop-Prelate of Arica ; later promoted first Bishop of Arica, died 1999
- Luiz Colussi as Auxiliary Bishop of Londrina ; later Coadjutor Bishop of Lins, succeeding as Bishop of Lins, finally Bishop of Caçador
- Paul Consbruch as Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn
- Daniel Miehm Miehm, Auxiliary Bishop of Hamilton, no previous prelature