Arae in Numidia (also spelled Aræ in Numidia) was an Ancient city and bishopric in
Roman Africa
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, which remains a Latin Catholic
titular see
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.
Its modern location is presumed in present
Algeria
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History
The city was important enough in the
Roman province
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of Numidia to become one of its many
suffragan
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bishoprics, but like most faded.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored in the 20th century as a Latin Catholic
titular bishopric
A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular metropolitan" (highest rank), "titular archbish ...
(also named Are di Numidia in Curiate Italian).
It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting episcopal (lowest) rank ''and of the intermediary (archiepiscopal) rank'' :
* Titular Bishop José Gabriel Diaz Cueva(1964.01.13 – 1968.06.26)
* ''Titular Archbishop Endre Hamvas (1969.01.10 – 1970.04.04)''
* Titular Bishop José Gea Escolano (1971.03.25 – 1976.09.10)
* ''Titular Archbishop Martino Giusti (1984.05.24 – 1987.12.01)''
* Titular Bishop John Gabriel (1988.01.30 – 1989.12.07)
* Titular Bishop Thomas Dabre (1990.04.02 – 1998.05.22)
* ''Titular Archbishop Paul Dahdah,
Discalced Carmelites
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(O.C.D.) (1999.07.30 – ), Apostolic Vicar of
Beirut
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(Lebanon)''
See also
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Arae in Mauretania
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Catholic Church in Algeria
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Prior to independence, Algeria was home to a million Catholic settlers (10%). Some Moroccans of Berber (mostly Kabyle ...
References
External links
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