Roman Empire - Mauretania Caesariensis (125 AD)

Capra was an ancient Roman–

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town in the province of

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 ...

. The

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was located in the present-day area of Béni Mansour and

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, Algeria. It was a bishopric in the Roman Catholic Church.

Ecclesiastical history

Victor Vitensis speaks of ''Capra Picta'' as a town in that province, where some Catholics sent there into

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under the

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Genseric, king of the Vandals from 428 to 477, converted a great number of the local population to Christianity.Stefano Antonio Morcelli
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Volume I, Brescia 1816, pp. 117–118 In the '' Notitia Provinciarum et Civitatum Africae'', Primus, bishop of the church in Capra, appears in the list of the Catholic bishops whom Huneric summoned to Carthage in 484 and then exiled.

Titular see

No longer a residential bishopric, Capra is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.'' Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ), p. 858 The ancient diocese was nominally restored in 1933 and since had the following incumbents, both of the lowest (episcopal) or intermediary (archiepiscopal) ranks : * Titular bishop Alain Sauveur Ferdinand van Gaver, Paris Foreign Missions Society M.E.P. (1965.03.22 – 1965.12.18) * Titular archbishop Joseph Floribert Cornelis,

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(O.S.B.) (1967.04.13 – 1974.11.13) * Titular bishop Hieronymus Herculanus Bumbun,

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(O.F.M. Cap.) (1975.12.19 – 1977.02.26) (later Archbishop) * Titular bishop Anatole Milandou (1983.07.22 – 1987.10.03) (later Archbishop) * Titular bishop Camillus Archibong Etokudoh (1988.01.18 – 1989.09.01) * Titular bishop Joseph Shipandeni Shikongo, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (O.M.I.) (1994.03.14 – ...), Apostolic Vicar of Rundu (Namibia)

References

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