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{{Multiple issues, {{refimprove, date=April 2017{{no footnotes, date=April 2017 Ubaza was an ancient city and bishopric in
Roman North Africa Africa Proconsularis was a Roman province on the northern African coast that was established in 146 BC following the defeat of Carthage in the Third Punic War. It roughly comprised the territory of present-day Tunisia, the northeast of Algeria, ...
, which remains a Latin
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 archbis ...
.


History

Ubaza was among the many towns 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 Numidia that were important enough to become a
suffragan bishopric 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 jurisdiction ...
, but faded. Its present location is in modern Terrebaza,
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. Its only recorded residential bishops both attended the council called in 484 at Carthage by
Huneric Huneric, Hunneric or Honeric (died December 23, 484) was King of the (North African) Vandal Kingdom (477–484) and the oldest son of Gaiseric. He abandoned the imperial politics of his father and concentrated mainly on internal affairs. He was m ...
of the Vandal Kingdom : * the Catholic Victor, banished afterwards * the Donastist heretic Secondinus.


Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored in 1928 as Latin
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 ...
of Ubaza (Latin = Curiate Italian) / Ubazen(sis) (Latin adjective). It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank: * Aston Sebastian Joseph Chichester,
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(S.J.) (4 March 1931 – 1 January 1955) as last
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of
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(the (Southern) Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe) (4 March 1931 – 1 January 1955), later first Metropolitan Archbishop of
Salisbury Salisbury ( ) is a cathedral city in Wiltshire, England with a population of 41,820, at the confluence of the rivers Avon, Nadder and Bourne. The city is approximately from Southampton and from Bath. Salisbury is in the southeast of ...
(now Harare,
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) (1 January 1955 – 23 November 1956), emeritate as
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of
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(23 November 1956 – death 24 October 1962) * Patrick H. Cronin,
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(S.S.C.M.E.) (24 May 1955 – 13 October 1970) as
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of Territorial Prelature of Ozamis (Philippines) (24 May 1955 – 13 October 1970); later Metropolitan Archbishop of Cagayan de Oro (Philippines) (13 October 1970 – retired 5 January 1988), died 1991 * Eduardo Herrera Riera (31 October 1970 – 5 July 1994) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Barquisimeto (
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) (31 October 1970 – 5 July 1994); previously Titular Bishop of Sesta (7 January 1965 – 30 November 1966) as Auxiliary Bishop of Cumaná (Venezuela) (7 January 1965 – 30 November 1966), Bishop of
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(Venezuela) (30 November 1966 – 31 October 1970); later Bishop of Carora (Venezuela) (5 July 1994 – retired 5 December 2003), died 2012 * Francis Xavier Irwin (24 July 1996 – ), emeritus as former auxiliary bishop of Archdiocese of Boston (Massachusetts, US), no previous prelature.


Other uses

* a fraction of Moniquirá, a town and municipality in Boyacá Department, part of the subregion of the Ricaurte Province, Colombia


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 Consta ...


Sources and external links


GCatholic - (former and) titular see
; Bibliography * Stefano Antonio Morcelli, ''Africa christiana'', Volume I, Brescia, 1816, pp. 347–348 * J. Mesnage, ''L'Afrique chrétienne'', Paris, 1912, p. 383 * H. Jaubert, ''Anciens évêchés et ruines chrétiennes de la Numidie et de la Sitifienne'', in ''Recueil des Notices et Mémoires de la Société archéologique de Constantine'', vol. 46, 1913, pp. 103–104 Catholic titular sees in Africa Former Roman Catholic dioceses in Africa