Centuria (Numidia)

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Centuria, also known as Centuriensis, was a Roman era town in Numidia, Roman province of Africa. It has been tentatively identified with ruins near Ain El Hadjar[1] in Algeria,[2][3] south of Saida.

Bishopric[]

The city was the seat of an ancient bishopric and the current bishop is . Known bishops of the town include:

  • Quodvultdeus (fl. 402–411) (Catholic bishop attended the Council of Milevum (402) and Council of Carthage (411)
  • Cresconio fl. 411) (rival Donatist)
  • Gennaro fl.484
  • Luis Camargo Pacheco (1622–1665)[4][5][6][7]
  • Johann Kaspar Kühner (1664–1685)
  • (1705 Appointed - Did not take office)
  • John Douglass (10 Sep 1790 appointed – 8 May 1812 died)[8]
  • (1818–1844)
  • (1840–1856)
  • St. , (1857 – 1 Nov 1861) [9]
  • Thomas McNulty (1864–1866)
  • Bonifacio Antonio Toscano (1874–1896)
  • Giuseppe Perrachon (18 Dec 1925 – 1944)
  • Stanislao Czajka (1944–1965)
  • William Joseph Moran (1965–1996)
  • Piotr Libera (1996–2007)
  • (15 Jun 2007 appointed – ) [10]

References[]

  1. ^ H. Jaubert, "Évêchés Anciens et ruines chrétiennes de la Numidie et de la Sitifienne", in Reports of Notices et Memoires de la Société archéologique de Constantine, vol. 46, 1913, p. 31.
  2. ^ Jean-Marie Lassère Onomastica africana V–VIII, Vol 18 Antiquités africaines 1982, 1 (pp. 167-175.
  3. ^ Michael Greenhalgh, The Military and Colonial Destruction of the Roman Landscape of North Africa, 1830-1900 (BRILL, 8 May 2014)
  4. ^ Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 140, Number 12,399.
  5. ^ Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 4, Page 145.
  6. ^ Episcopologio Español, Volume 1500, Page 143, Number 910.
  7. ^ Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1622, Number 59.
  8. ^ Encyclical Letter of the Bishops of Rama, Acanthos, and Centuria, 1791.
  9. ^ "CatholicSaints.Info  » Bishop of Centuria". catholicsaints.info. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  10. ^ Titular Episcopal See of Centuria at GCatholic.org.

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