Regiae (or Regiæ) was an ancient city and former
bishopric in Roman North Africa. It is currently 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 ...
. Its presumed location is Arbal, in modern
Algeria
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History
The city was important enough in the
Roman 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 ...
diocese of its capital
Caesarea Mauretaniae's Metropolitan archbishopric.
However it later faded.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored as a Latin Catholic
titular bishopric in 1933, the Italian Curiate title being Regie.
It has had the following incumbents, all of the lowest (episcopal) rank :
* Marcel Daubechies,
White Fathers (M. Afr.) (1950.02.03 – 1959.04.25), former
Apostolic Administrator
An Apostolic administration in the Catholic Church is administrated by a prelate appointed by the pope to serve as the ordinary for a specific area. Either the area is not yet a diocese (a stable 'pre-diocesan', usually missionary apostolic admi ...
of
Bangweulu (Zambia) (1949 – 1950.02.03), when appointed as Apostolic Vicar of
Kasama (actually the same, renamed; Zambia) (1950.02.03 – 1959.04.25), later promoted first Bishop of Kasama (1959.04.25 – 1964.11.25), emeritate as Titular Bishop of
Buffada (1964.11.25 – 1976.08.09)
* Thomas Joseph Riley (1959.11.04 – 1977.08.17)
* Luis María Estrada Paetau,
Dominican Order
The Order of Preachers ( la, Ordo Praedicatorum) abbreviated OP, also known as the Dominicans, is a Catholic mendicant order of Pontifical Right for men founded in Toulouse, France, by the Spanish priest, saint and mystic Dominic of Cal ...
(O.P.) (1977.10.27 – 2011.03.25)
* Donald Joseph Hying (2011.05.26 – 2014.11.24)
* Janusz Marian Danecki,
Conventual Franciscans (2015.02.25 – ...) (O.F.M. Conv.),
Auxiliary Bishop of
Campo Grande (Brazil)
References
External links
GigaCatholic, with titular incumbent biography links
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Catholic titular sees in Africa
Roman towns and cities in Algeria