Equizetum is a former city and bishopric in
Roman North Africa
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which only remains a Latin Catholic
titular see
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.
Its presumed location is Ouled-Agla (colonial French name Lacourbe) in present
Algeria
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History
It was among the cities of sufficient importance in the
Roman province
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of
Mauretania Sitifensis
Mauretania Sitifensis was a Roman province in Northwest Africa. The capital was Setifis.
History
In the later division of the Roman Empire under the Emperor Diocletian, the eastern part of Mauretania Caesariensis, from Saldae to the river Ampsag ...
(in the papal sway) to become a
suffragan diocese, but was to fade, plausibly at the seventh century advent of Islam.
Two of its bishops are historically documented:
* The schismatic
Donatist
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Victor attended the
Council of Carthage in 411, where the prevailing Catholic bishops declared his sect heretical.
* Pacatus, participant in the
Council of Carthage called in 484 by
Arian king
Huneric
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of the
Vandal Kingdom, after which ha was exiled like most catholic bishops.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 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 Equizetum (Latin) / Equizeto (Curiate Italian) / Equizeten(sis) (Latin adjective).
It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank:
* Michael Rodrigues (1964.03.15 – death 1964.10.12) as emeritus; formerly Bishop of
Belgaum (India) (1953.09.19 – retired 1964.03.15)
* Juan Tarsicio Senner,
Friars Minor
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(O.F.M.) (born Austria) (1965.08.19 – resigned 1976.01.23) as emeritus, died 1985; formerly
Titular Bishop
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By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox ...
of
Rusadus (1942.02.25 – 1951.10.26) first as
Apostolic Vicar
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The Apostles
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*The Twelve Apostles of Jesus, or something related to them, such as the Church of the Holy Apostles
*Apostolic succession, the doctrine connecting the Christian Chur ...
of
Chiquitos (
Bolivia) (1942.02.25 – 1949) and then as
Auxiliary Bishop of
Archdiocese of Sucre (Bolivia) (1949 – 1951.10.26), next Bishop of
Cochabamba
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(Bolivia) (1951.10.26 – retired 1965.08.19)
* Ronald Gerard Connors,
Redemptorists
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(C.SS.R.) (1976.04.24 – 1977.07.20) as
Coadjutor Bishop of
San Juan de la Maguana
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(
Dominican Republic
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) (1976.04.24 – 1977.07.20); next succeeded as Bishop of San Juan de la Maguana (1977.07.20 – retired 1991.02.20), died 2002
* José Vittorio Tommasí (1984.11.19 – 1991.08.28) as Auxiliary Bishop of
Archdiocese of Bahía Blanca (
Argentina
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) (1984.11.19 – 1991.08.28); next Bishop of
Nueve de Julio (Argentina) (1991.08.28 – death 1998.09.16)
* Juan Bautista Herrada Armijo,
Mercedarians
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(O. de M.) (1991.11.30 – death 2002.01.21) first as
Apostolic Administrator
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of
Territorial Prelature of Calama (
Chile
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) (1976.02.26 – 1982.03.05), then as
Bishop-Prelate
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of Calama (1982.03.05 – 1991.11.30), finally as Auxiliary Bishop of
Archdiocese of Antofagasta (Chile) (1991.11.30 – 1997.07.16)
* Antonio Nova Rocha (2002.02.15 – 2010.11.13) as Auxiliary Bishop of
Archdiocese of Barranquilla (
Colombia) (2002.02.15 – 2010.11.13) and Apostolic Administrator of Barranquilla (2010.08 – 2010.11.13); later Bishop of
Facatativá
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(Colombia) (2010.11.13 – death 2013.04.09)
*
Santo Loku Pio Doggale (2010.11.27 – ) (born Sudan) as Auxiliary Bishop of
Archdiocese of Juba
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History
* 14 July 1927: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Bahr el-Gebel from the Apostolic Prefe ...
(
South Sudan
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) (2010.11.27 – ).
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 {{sup, 'self-published''}
; Bibliography
* Pius Bonifacius Gams, ''Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae'', Leipzig 1931, p. 465
* Stefano Antonio Morcelli, ''Africa christiana'', Volume I, Brescia 1816, pp. 155–156
* 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. 116–117
Catholic titular sees in Africa
Suppressed Roman Catholic dioceses