Arae in Numidia (also spelled Aræ in Numidia) was an Ancient city and bishopric in
Roman Africa
Roman Africa may refer to the following areas of Northern Africa which were part of the Imperium Romanum and/or the Western/Byzantine successor empires :
; in the unified Roman empire :
* Africa (Roman province), with the great metropolis Cartha ...
, which remains a Latin Catholic
titular see.
Its modern location is presumed in present
Algeria.
History
The city was important enough in the
Roman province of Numidia to become one of its many
suffragan
A suffragan bishop is a type of bishop in some Christian denominations.
In the Anglican Communion, a suffragan bishop is a bishop who is subordinate to a metropolitan bishop or diocesan bishop (bishop ordinary) and so is not normally jurisdictiona ...
bishoprics, but like most faded.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored in the 20th century as a Latin Catholic
titular bishopric (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 (O.C.D.) (1999.07.30 – ), Apostolic Vicar of
Beirut (Lebanon)''
See also
*
Arae in Mauretania
In Greek mythology, the Arae (; Ancient Greek: Αραι) were female spirits of curses, particularly of the curses placed by the dead upon those guilty of their death; they were associated with the underworld. Also they can curse men such that th ...
*
Catholic Church in Algeria
References
External links
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