The Diocese of Manaccenser ( la, Dioecesis Menaccenseritana, link=no) is a suppressed and

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of the

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. The diocese of Manaccenser is

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, and was originally founded on a Roman town of the

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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 ...

(

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) that went by the same name. That ancient town is now lost to history but it was in the region of

Cherchell Cherchell (Arabic: شرشال) is a town on Algeria's Mediterranean coast, west of Algiers. It is the seat of Cherchell District in Tipaza Province. Under the names Iol and Caesarea, it was formerly a Roman colony and the capital of the k ...

in today's

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. The only known bishop of this diocese from antiquity is Victor, who took part in the synod assembled in Carthage in 484 by the

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King

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. After the synod, Victor was exiled. Today Manaccenser survives as a

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ric, and the current bishop is

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, auxiliary bishop of

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,La Manaccesnser
at catholic-hierarchy.org. who replaced

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in 2007.

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