Gera (Egypt)

Gera(s) was an ancient city and former bishopric in Roman Egypt and remains a Latin Catholic titular see.

For other uses, see Gera (disambiguation) and Geras.

Its modern location, now in Egypt, is unclear. Gera(s) was important enough in the Late Roman province of Augustamnica Prima to be one of the suffragans of its capital Pelusium's Metropolitan Archbishopric. It was however to fade completely.

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