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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 ...

. It was mentioned in the

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. Tigisis is identified with ruins situated between present-day

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Diocese

The city was also the seat of an

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. There are three known bishops of this diocese. The rival

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bishops Solemnio and Pascasio both attended the 411 Council of Carthage, which gathered together the bishops of

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. Passinato intervened at the 484 Council of Carthage called by the

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, after which he was exiled. Today, Tigisis in Mauritania survives as

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( la, Tigistanus in Mauretania; it, Tigisi di Mauritania) in the

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. The current bishop is Tadeusz Bronakowski, auxiliary bishop of Łomża.Titular Episcopal See of Tigisi in Mauretania

Bishops

Ancient diocese

Three bishops of the town are known to us from antiquity: * Solemnius (),

bishop * Paschasius (), a rival

bishop * Passitanus ()

Titular diocese

* Rodrigo Vicente Cisneros Durán (1 December 1967– 4 July 1969) * Herbé Seijas (2 July 1975– 15 October 1975 ) *

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(6 March 1976– 26 June 1988) * Martino Canessa (20 June 1989– 2 February 1996) * Thomas Koorilos Chakkalapadickal (9 May 1997– 15 January 2003) * Tadeusz Bronakowski (11 February 2006– present)

References

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Berber populated places