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Bida is a former Ancient city and bishopric in Roman Africa, now a
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Bida is a former Ancient city and bishopric in Roman Africa, now a Latin Catholic
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titular see
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 ...
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Its presumed location are the ruins at present Djemaa Saharidj
Djemâa-Saharidj is a village in the wilaya of Tizi Ouzou, Algeria . The traditional center of the Aït Fraoussen tribe, and known for its abundance of resources, its ancient past and the role assigned to it in the history of the region.
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History
The city was important enough in theRoman 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 ...
of Mauretania Caesariensis
Mauretania Caesariensis (Latin for "Caesarean Mauretania") was a Roman province located in what is now Algeria in the Maghreb. The full name refers to its capital Caesarea Mauretaniae (modern Cherchell).
The province had been part of the Kingd ...
to become a 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 ...
bishopric of its capital's Metropolitan Archbishop, but was to fade. Campanus represented Bida at the Council of Carthage (424).
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored as a Latin Catholic titular bishopric in the 17th century as Bitha or Bita, renamed Bida in 1923–25. Franz Rudolf Bornewasser It has had the following incumbents, all of the lowest (episcopal) rank : * Guillaume Mahot, Paris Foreign Missions Society M.E.P. (1680.01.29 – 1684.06.04) * Jean-Paul-Hilaire-Michel Courvezy, M.E.P. (1832.04.05 – 1857.05.01) * Franz Rudolf Bornewasser (1921.04.23 – 1922.03.12) (later Archbishop) * Frederick Eis (1922.07.08 – 1926.05.05) * Carlos Labbé Márquez (1926.08.02 – 1929.12.20) * James Augustine McFadden (1932.05.12 – 1943.06.02) * Alexandre-Joseph-Charles Derouineau (德為能), M.E.P. (1943.12.08 – 1946.04.11) (later Archbishop) * Aloysius Joseph Willinger, Redemptorists (C.SS.R.) (1946.12.12 – 1953.01.03) * Ubaldo Evaristo Cibrián Fernández, Passionists (C.P.) (1953.03.07 – 1965.04.14) * John Joseph Cassata (1968.03.12 – 1969.08.22) * Norman Francis McFarland (1970.06.05 – 1976.02.10) * Heinrich Machens (1976.03.24 – 2001.02.17) * Sofronio Aguirre Bancud, Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament (S.S.S.) (2001.05.24 – 2004.11.06) * Julio Hernando García Peláez (2005.02.11 – 2010.06.05) * Eugenio Scarpellini (2010.07.15 – 2013.07.26) * Áureo Patricio Bonilla Bonilla,
Friars Minor
The Order of Friars Minor (also called the Franciscans, the Franciscan Order, or the Seraphic Order; postnominal abbreviation OFM) is a mendicant Catholic religious order, founded in 1209 by Francis of Assisi. The order adheres to the teachin ...
(O.F.M.) (2013.10.29 – ...), Apostolic Vicar of Galápagos (Ecuador)
See also
*Catholic Church in Algeria
The Catholic Church in Algeria is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome.
Prior to independence, Algeria was home to a million Catholic settlers (10%). Some Moroccans of Berber (mostly Kabyle ...
* Bita (Mauretania), in Mauretania Caesariensis
References
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