Baia was an ancient city and bishopric in the
Roman province
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of
Africa Proconsulare. It is a
Roman Catholic
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titular see
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.
History
Baia, identified as modern Henchir-Settara or Henchir-El-Hammam in present-day
Algeria
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, was among the many towns that were important enough in the
Roman province
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of
Numidia to become a
suffragan diocese in the papal sway.
Five of its Catholic Bishops are historically recorded:
* Felix participated in a synod called by bishop Gratus of
Carthage
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in 349
* Beianus, on the side of Maximianus of Carthage against the
Donatist
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heresy in 394.
* Valentinus attended as Catholic bishop the Council of Carthage in 411, held by the command of the (Western)
Roman Emperor Honorius, as did his Donatist counterpart Quintasius, on that very heresy.
* Valentinus participated as
Primate
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of Numidia the synod of Carthage in 419, regarding the question of appeals to Rome.
* Asclepius, author writing against
Arianism and Donatism, mid fifth century
[Gennadio di Marsiglia, ''De viris illustribus'', chapter 73. Mesnage held him bishop of ]Vaga
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, also in Numidia, but presently Tunisian.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored (again?) in 1933 as Latin
Titular bishopric
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of Baia (Latin = Curiate Italian) / Baianen(sis) (Latin adjective).
It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank :
* Miguel Alviter,
Dominican Order
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(O.P.) (1502.04.04 – ?) as
Auxiliary Bishop of
Diocese of Plasencia (
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) (1502.04.04 – ?)
* Anthony Victor Hälg,
Benedictine Order (O.S.B.) (born Switzerland) (1949.01.13 – death 1975.11.29), first as
Coadjutor Abbot of
Territorial Abbacy of Ndanda (
Tanzania
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) (1949.01.13 – succession 1949.12.15), then as
Abbot Ordinary of Ndanda (1949.12.15 – retired 1972), finally on emeritate
* László Tóth (1976.04.02 – death 1997.07.06) as Auxiliary Bishop of
Diocese of Veszprem (
Hungary
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) (1976.04.02 – 1987.06.05) and on emeritate
* Adriano Langa,
Friars Minor
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(O.F.M.) (1997.10.24 – 2005.04.01) as Auxiliary Bishop of
Archdiocese of Maputo
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History
* 21 January 1612: Established as a '' prelature nullius'' from the Diocese of Goa
* 1783: Promot ...
(
Mozambique
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) (1997.10.24 – 2005.04.01); later
Coadjutor Bishop of
Inhambane (Mozambique) (2005.04.01 – 2006.09.07), succeeding as Bishop of Inhambane (2006.09.07 – ...)
* Denis James Madden (2005.05.10 – ...), first as Auxiliary Bishop of
Archdiocese of Baltimore
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(Maryland, USA) (2005.05.10 – 2016.12.05), then on emeritate.
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 ...
References
Sources and external links
GCatholic ; Bibliography
* Pius Bonifacius Gams, ''Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae'', Leipzig 1931, p. 464
* Stefano Antonio Morcelli, ''Africa christiana'', Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 94
* Auguste Audollent, lemma 'Baiensis' in ''Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques'', vol. VI, 1932, coll. 240-241
* Joseph Mesnage, ''L'Afrique chrétienne'', Paris 1912, p. 369
* Mansi, ''Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio'', volumes III & IV, passim
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* {{Cite journal, last=Laporte, first=Jean-Pierre, title=Henchir el-Hammam, antique Aquae Flavianae., url=https://www.academia.edu/30387502, language=en
Catholic titular sees in Africa
Suppressed Roman Catholic dioceses