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Babar Babar ( ur, ), also variously spelled as Baber, Babur, and Babor is a male given name of Pashto, and Persian origin, and a popular male given name in Pakistan. It is generally taken in reference to the Persian ''babr'' ( Persian: ببر), meani ...

and Babra for namesakes'' Babar is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality ...

Khenchela Khenchela ancient Mascula ( ar, خنشلة) is the capital city of the administrative Khenchela Province ('' Wilaya''), number 40, in the north east of Algeria. Situated in the Aures Mountains, 1200 m above sea level. The city is mainly po ...

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, northeastern

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. As Ancient Babra, a former bishopric, it remains a Latin Catholic

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Name

Babar (

) is

Amazigh , image = File:Berber_flag.svg , caption = The Berber ethnic flag , population = 36 million , region1 = Morocco , pop1 = 14 million to 18 million , region2 = Algeria , pop2 ...

(the Hamitic language of the Berbers), meaning ''the Lion's Gate'', from ''Bab'' 'Gate' (=Arabic) and ''Ar'' 'Lion'. It is the opening to the Berberian lion's Atlas range territory, to ''Sheshar'' (Chechar) and ''Seiar'' (Seïar).

Modern Babar

The municipality is coextensive with Babar

district A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municipa ...

and has a population of 28,182, which gives it 11 seats in the PMA. Its postal code is 40340 and its municipal code is 4013.

History

Babra was among the many town important enough in the

Roman province The Roman provinces (Latin: ''provincia'', pl. ''provinciae'') were the administrative regions of Ancient Rome outside Roman Italy that were controlled by the Romans under the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire. Each province was rule ...

Numidia Numidia ( Berber: ''Inumiden''; 202–40 BC) was the ancient kingdom of the Numidians located in northwest Africa, initially comprising the territory that now makes up modern-day Algeria, but later expanding across what is today known as Tuni ...

to become a suffragan diocese in the papal sway. Its only historically certain incumbent was Victorinus Babrensis, on the list of Catholic bishops attending the Council called at Carthage in 484 by king

Huneric Huneric, Hunneric or Honeric (died December 23, 484) was King of the (North African) Vandal Kingdom (477–484) and the oldest son of Gaiseric. He abandoned the imperial politics of his father and concentrated mainly on internal affairs. He was ...

of the Vandal Kingdom, annotated in Latin "prbt" (''peribat''), indicating he died shortly afterwards, perhaps in (or before he could be sent in) exile, as most opponents of the heresy

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were. Morcelli also counts as incumbent of Babra Petrus (AD 592), which other authors hold to have been bishop of Barica, another Numidian see.

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin

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of Babra (Latin = Curiate Italian) / Babren(sis) (Latin adjective). It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank : * Giustino Giulio Pastorino,

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(O.F.M.) (Italian) (1965.01.11 – death 2005.04.26) as

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Benghazi Benghazi () , ; it, Bengasi; tr, Bingazi; ber, Bernîk, script=Latn; also: ''Bengasi'', ''Benghasi'', ''Banghāzī'', ''Binghāzī'', ''Bengazi''; grc, Βερενίκη ('' Berenice'') and '' Hesperides''., group=note (''lit. Son of he Gha ...

(

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) (1965.01.11 – retired 1997.03.10) and

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of Apostolic Vicariate of Derna (Libya) (1966 – 1978) * Barry Alexander Anthony Wood,

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(O.M.I.) (2005.10.10 – ...), Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Durban (

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) (2005.10.10 – ...).

Sources and external links

GCatholic - (former &) titular bishopric
; Bibliography - ecclesiastical history * Pius Bonifacius Gams, ''Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae'', Leipzig 1931, p. 464 * Stefano Antonio Morcelli, ''Africa christiana'', Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 90 * Auguste Audollent, v. 'Babrensis' in ''Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques'', vol. VI, 1932, coll. 1042-1043 * Patrologia Latina, Vol. LVIII, coll. 271 & 307 {{Khenchela Province Populated places in Khenchela Province

Name

Modern Babar

History

Titular see

See also

Sources and external links