Thucca in Numidia was an Ancient

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and the seat of an ancient Bishopric during the

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, which remains only as a Latin Catholic

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History

The city in the

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Numidia Numidia ( Berber: ''Inumiden''; 202–40 BC) was the ancient kingdom of the Numidians located in northwest Africa, initially comprising the territory that now makes up modern-day Algeria, but later expanding across what is today known as Tunis ...

, and has been tentatively identified with

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at modern Henchir-El-Abiodh, present

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, was important to become one of its many

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s, in the papal sway, yet was destined to fade. Two of its residential

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are historically documented : * Saturninus, recorded in 255 * Sabinus, in 411 The city and bishopric lasted till the 7th century

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, today it is incorporated into northern

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Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin

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Thucca in Numidia (Latin) / Tucca di Numidia (Curiate Italian) / Thuccen(sis) in Numidia (Latin adjective). It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank ''with an

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and an (other) archiepiscopal exception:''http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t1881.htm GCatholic.org * Juan Vicente Solís Fernández (1967.03.30 – death 1973.01.16) as emeritate, formerly Bishop of

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) (1940.07.03 – retired 1967.03.30) * Federico Richter Fernandez-Prada,

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(O.F.M.) (1973.04.12 – 1975.09.20 ''see below'') as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Piura (

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) (1973.04.12 – 1975.09.20) * ''Titular Archbishop: Federico Richter Fernandez-Prada, O.F.M. (''see above'' 1975.09.20 – 1979.11.20) as

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(Peru) (1975.09.20 – 1979.11.20), later succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Ayacucho (1979.11.20 – retired 1991.05.23), died 2011'' * Jean-Baptiste Tiendrebeogo (1981.11.05 – 1996.03.30) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Ouagadougou (

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) (1981.11.05 – 1996.03.30), later Bishop of

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(Burkina Faso) (1996.03.30 – death 1998.05.14) * ''Joseph Perumthotttam (2002.04.24 – 2007.01.22) as Auxiliary Bishop of

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) (2002.04.24 – 2007.01.22), later succeeding as Metropolitan Archeparch (Archbishop) of Changanacherry of the Syro-Malabars (India) (2007.01.22 – ...)'' * Liro Vendelino Meurer (2009.01.14 – 2013.04.24) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Passo Fundo (

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; Bibliography : * Pius Bonifacius Gams, ''Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae'', Leipzig 1931, p. 469 * Stefano Antonio Morcelli, ''Africa christiana'', Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 334 Catholic titular sees in Africa Former Roman Catholic dioceses in Africa Roman towns and cities in Algeria Suppressed Roman Catholic dioceses Ancient Berber cities {{Africa-RC-diocese-stub

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