Thizica was a
civitas
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in the
Roman province
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of
Africa Proconsularis. It served as a
Roman Catholic
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*Rome, the capital city of Italy
*Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD
*Roman people, the people of ancient Rome
*'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lette ...
diocese
In Ecclesiastical polity, church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, pro ...
. The city's ruins are located at present-day Techga or Tchegga in northern
Tunisia
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[J. Mesnage]
''L'Afrique chrétienne''
Paris 1912, p. 156
Bishopric
The names of two early bishops of the see are known:
[
*Novellus (mentioned by Saint ]Augustine of Hippo
Augustine of Hippo ( , ; la, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Af ...
as condemned to death by Donatists
Donatism was a Christian sect leading to a schism in the Church, in the region of the Church of Carthage, from the fourth to the sixth centuries. Donatists argued that Christian clergy must be faultless for their ministry to be effective and th ...
(heretics) in 313)
*Vitalia (mentioned in 646)
The modern use of the diocese as a 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 ...
began in 1967. There have been four bishops since that time:
* Edwin Broderick
Edwin Bernard Broderick (January 16, 1917 – July 2, 2006) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Albany from 1969 to 1976.
Early life and education
Edwin Broderick was born in the Bronx, New York, to P ...
(March 1967 – March 1969)
* Alfonso Nava Carreón (May 1969 – March 1990)
* Edwin Frederick O'Brien (February 1996 – March 1998)
* Louis Dicaire
Louis Dicaire (29 August 1946 – 19 July 2020) was a Canadian Roman Catholic bishop. He was the auxiliary bishop of Saint-Jean-Longueuil.
Life
Born in Montreal, Dicaire was educated at the Collège André-Grasset and Collège Saint-Jean-Vianne ...
(February 1999 – July 2020)
Of these, O'Brien held the personal title of archbishop
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.
References
Sources and external links
Harnack, 89-96
Catholic titular sees in Africa
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