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Sidi Fredj, known under French rule as Sidi Ferruch, is a coastal town in
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Populated coastal places in Algeria {{Algiers-geo-stub
Sidi Fredj, known under French rule as Sidi Ferruch, is a coastal town in Algiers Province
Algiers Province ( ar, ولاية الجزائر, ', ; french: wilaya d'Alger or ) is a province ( wilayah) in Algeria, named after its capital, Algiers, which is also the national capital. It is adopted from the old French department of Algier ...
, Algeria
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. It is located within the territory of the municipality of Staouéli, on a presque-isle on the Mediterranean Sea
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. It is the site of the ancient city and bishopric Obori, which remains a Catholic titular see
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History
Obori was important enough in theRoman province
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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 King ...
to become one of the many suffragan
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s of its capital Caesarea Mauretaniae's Metropolitan Archbishopric, but faded like most sees in Roman Africa.
Sidi Fredj was the landing spot where the French established their beachhead for the Invasion of Algiers in 1830. A number of ships of the French Navy were subsequently named ''Sidi Ferruch'', the colonial name of the town under French rule, in honour of the event.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as thetitular 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 Obori (Latin) / Obori (Curiate Italian) / Oboritan(us) (Latin adjective).
It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting episcopal (lowest) rank :http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t1297.htm GCatholic
* James Francis Carney (1966.01.07 – 1969.01.08) as Auxiliary Bishop of Vancouver
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(Canada
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) (1966.01.07 – 1969.01.08), next succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Vancouver (1969.01.08 – death 1990.09.16)
* Luigi Zanzottera, Oblates of Saint Joseph (O.S.J.) (1969.03.13 – death 2005.01.18), as Auxiliary Bishop of Huaraz (Peru
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) (1969.03.13 – 1970.05.31) and on emeritate
* Juan José Pineda Fasquelle, Claretians
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(C.M.F.) (2005.05.21 – ...), Auxiliary Bishop of Tegucigalpa
Tegucigalpa (, , ), formally Tegucigalpa, Municipality of the Central District ( es, Tegucigalpa, Municipio del Distrito Central or ''Tegucigalpa, M.D.C.''), and colloquially referred to as ''Tegus'' or ''Teguz'', is the capital and largest city ...
(Honduras
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).
See also
* List of lighthouses in Algeria *List of Catholic dioceses in Tunisia
The Catholic Church in Tunisia is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome.
Dioceses
The Catholic church in Tunisia presently comprises only a single Latin archbishopric, in the national capital T ...
References
External links
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Populated coastal places in Algeria {{Algiers-geo-stub