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Obbi for namesakes''
Obbi was an ancient
city
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and former
diocese
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History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, pro ...
in
Africa Proconsulare. It is now a
Roman Catholic
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titular see
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.
History
Obbi was among the numerous towns in the
Roman province
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of
Mauretania Caesariensis
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The province had been part of the Kingd ...
which were important enough to become a
suffragan bishopric
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, yet faded completely, even its location in modern
Algeria
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Its only recorded incumbent, Eusabius, attended the
Council of Carthage of 484, called by the king
Huneric
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, as one of his
Vandal Kingdom's Catholic bishops, like most of those afterwards banished, unlike the schismatic adherents of the heresy
Donatism
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.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin
titular bishopric
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of Obbi (Latin = Curiate Italian) / Obbitan(us) (Latin adjective).
It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank:
* Manuel Ferreira Cabral (1965.01.16 – 1967.07.03) as
Auxiliary Bishop of
Archdiocese of Braga
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(Portugal) (1965.01.16 – 1967.07.03); later Bishop of
Beira (
Mozambique
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) (1967.07.03 – 1971.07.01), Titular Bishop of
Dume (1972.10.21 – death 1981.12.12) as (again) Auxiliary Bishop of
Archdiocese of Braga
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(Portugal) (1972.10.21 – 1981.12.12)
* Franz von Streng (1967.11.03 – death 1970.08.07) as emeritate; previously Bishop of
Basel und Lugano (Switzerland) (
936.11.171936.11.30 – 1967.11.03)
* Henri-François-Marie-Pierre Derouet (1970.10.21 – 1971.07.24) as
Coadjutor Bishop
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of
Séez (France) (1970.10.21 – succession 1971.07.24); next Bishop of Séez (1971.07.24 – 1985.10.10), Bishop of
Arras
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(northern France) (1985.10.10 – retired 1998.08.12), died 2004
* Guy Alexis Herbulot (1974.06.20 – 1978.05.12) as Auxiliary Bishop of
Archdiocese of Reims
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(northern France) (1974.06.20 – 1978.05.12); later last Bishop of
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Places
* Corbeil, Ontario, Canada
* Corbeil, Marne, a commune in the Marne département in north-eastern France
* Corbeil-Cerf, a commune in the département of Oise in northern France
* Corbeil-Essonnes, a commune in the so ...
(France) (1978.05.12 – 1988.06.11), restyled first Bishop of
Évry-Corbeil-Essonnes (France) (1988.06.11 – retired 2000.04.15)
*
Bede Vincent Heather (1979.06.30 – 1986.04.08) as Auxiliary Bishop of
Archdiocese of Sydney (Australia) (1979.06.30 – 1986.04.08); later first Bishop of
Parramatta
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(Australia) (1986.04.08 – retired 1997.07.10); died 2021
* Albert Jean-Marie Rouet (1986.06.21 – 1993.12.16) as Auxiliary Bishop of Paris (France) (1986.06.21 – 1993.12.16); later
Coadjutor Bishop
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of Poitiers (France) (1993.12.16 – succession 1994.06.12), last suffragan Bishop of
Poitiers
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(France) (1994.06.12 – 2002.12.08), promoted first Metropolitan Archbishop of
Archdiocese of Poitiers
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(France) (2002.12.08 – retired 2011.02.12)
* Adriano Tomasi Travaglia,
Friars Minor
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(O.F.M.) (2002.02.16 – ...), as Auxiliary Bishop of
Archdiocese of Lima
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(
Peru
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) (2002.02.16 – ...), no previous prelature.
See also
*
List of Catholic dioceses in Algeria
Current dioceses
All Roman Rite
;''Ecclesiastical province of Alger''
* Metropolitan Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Alger; united with the titular see of Iulia Caesarea (Ancient bishopric at Alger)
** suffragan Roman Catholic Diocese of Constant ...
Sources and external links
GCatholic - data for all sections* J. Mesnage, ''L'Afrique chrétienne'', Paris 1912, p. 498
References
Catholic titular sees in Africa
Former Roman Catholic dioceses in Africa
Suppressed Roman Catholic dioceses
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