Roman Empire - Africa Proconsularis (125 AD)

Theuzi is a former ancient city and

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and present

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. Its modern location is unclear, but is believed to have been somewhere in present

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History

Aquae Novae was important enough in the

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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 ...

to become one of the many

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s of its capital

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's Metropolitan Archbishopric, but faded.

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as a

titular bishopric 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 ...

(Teuzi in Curiate Italian). It has had the following incumbents, all of the lowest (episcopal) rank : * Jorge Solórzano Pérez (2000.06.17 – 2005.10.15) * José Luis Mollaghan (1993.07.22 – 2000.05.17) as Auxiliary Bishop of

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(Argentina) (1993.07.22 – 2000.05.17); later Bishop of San Miguel (Argentina) (2000.05.17 – 2005.12.22), Metropolitan Archbishop of

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(Argentina) (2005.12.22 – 2014.05.19), Member of

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(2015.01.21 – ...) * Antonio José López Castillo (1988.02.26 – 1992.08.01) as Auxiliary Bishop of

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(Venezuela) (1988.02.26 – 1992.08.01); later Bishop of Barinas (Venezuela) (1992.08.01 – 2001.12.27), Metropolitan Archbishop of

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(Venezuela) (2001.12.27 – 2007.12.22), Metropolitan Archbishop of

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(Venezuela) (2007.12.22 – ...) * Eduardo Pedro Martínez y Dalmau,

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(C.P.) (1961.03.16 – 1987.11.19) * Andrzej Siemieniewski (2006.01.05 – ...), Auxiliary Bishop of

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(Poland)

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