Cellae in Proconsulari was an ancient city and bishopric in

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, which remains a Latin

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History

The

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(city) in

Roman North Africa Africa Proconsularis was a Roman province on the northern African coast that was established in 146 BC following the defeat of Carthage in the Third Punic War. It roughly comprised the territory of present-day Tunisia, the northeast of Algeria, ...

is tentatively identified with ruins at Ain Zouarin in modern

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. The location of this city is known thanks to a

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that has revealed the site. The city was one of many in the Late

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Africa Proconsularis Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

which were important enough to become the

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of an ancient

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of the primatial Metropolitan of

Carthage Carthage was the capital city of Ancient Carthage, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia. Carthage was one of the most important trading hubs of the Ancient Mediterranean and one of the most affluent cities of the classi ...

, but later faded. Morcelli mentions only one bishop, Cipriano, who was among the

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prelates summoned to Carthage in 484 by the

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king

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. Mesnage and Ferron instead attribute this seat two other bishops, Honorius and Casto, who took part in the

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, which saw gathered together Catholic bishops and

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of Roman Africa. Morcelli mentions another venue Cellensis, which ranks in the Roman province of

Byzacena Byzacena (or Byzacium) ( grc, Βυζάκιον, ''Byzakion'') was a Late Roman province in the central part of Roman North Africa, which is now roughly Tunisia, split off from Africa Proconsularis. History At the end of the 3rd century AD, the ...

. According to Ferron that would refer in fact to the diocese of Zella.

Titular see

In 1933 the diocese was nominally restored as

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Cellae in Proconsulari, of the lowest (episcopal) rank. It has had the following incumbents, so far of fitting episcopal rank:http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t0463.htm GCatholic * Félix María Torres Parra (1966.06.04 – 1969.04.25) as Auxiliary Bishop of Cartagena (

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) (1966.06.04 – 1969.04.25); later Bishop of

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(Colombia) (1969.04.25 – 1980.12.11), Bishop of

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(Colombia) (1980.12.11 – 1987.05.11), Metropolitan Archbishop of

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(Colombia) (1987.05.11 – 1999.03.18) *

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(1969.05.17 – 1980.06.28) as Auxiliary Bishop of Quito (

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) (1969.05.17 – 1980.06.28?); later Bishop of Ibarra (Ecuador) (1980.06.28 – 1983.08.05), last

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(1983.08.05 – 1986.07.21) and Titular Bishop of Novi (1983.08.05 – 1988.03.25) promoted first

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(1986.07.21 – 1989.12.07), then

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(Ecuador) (1988.03.25 – 1989.12.07) succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Guayaquil (1989.12.07 – retired 2003.05.07), died 2006 * Felipe María Zalba Elizalde,

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(O.P.) (1980.12.18 – 1984.02.29) as Auxiliary Bishop of

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(

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) (1980.12.18 – 1984.02.29), later

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(Peru) (1984.02.29 – death 1999.10.19) *

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(1984.10.25 – 1990.03.14) as

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(Bucharest,

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) (1984.10.25 – 1990.03.14); later succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Bucharest (Romania) (1990.03.14 – ...), also President of Episcopal Conference of Romania (1994–1998, 2001–2004, 2007.05 – 2010.06, 2012.11 – 2016.05.11), Vice-President of Episcopal Conference of Romania (2016.05.11 – ...) * Emilio Aranguren Echeverria (1991.04.30 – 1995.04.01) as Auxiliary Bishop of Cienfuegos–Santa Clara (

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) (1991.04.30 – 1995.04.01), later succeeding as Bishop of

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(Cuba) (1995.04.01 – 2005.11.14), Bishop of Holguín (Cuba) (2005.11.14 – ...) * Eugenio Arellano Fernandez,

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(M.C.C.J.) (1995.06.01 – ...),

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of Esmeraldas (Ecuador).

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