Macomades was a

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and Roman city in North Africa. It was located near present-day Oum-El-Bouaghi, Algeria

History

Macomades was established as an inland Punic trading post under the name ( xpu, 𐤌𐤒𐤌𐤀, "Place"). It was about from

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. It issued its own

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coins with an

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-style god's head obverse and a

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bearing either a hog and

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horse or a disk in a crescent, a symbol of the Punic goddess Tanit. It was a town in the Roman province of

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. It was overrun by the Umayyad Caliphate during the 7th-century Muslim invasion.

Religion

No later than AD256, the town was the

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of a

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bishop. The diocese was in abeyance after the Muslim conquest of the region until it was restored by the Roman Catholic Church in 1933 as a titular bishopric (').1

List of bishops

* Cassius, at the council of Carthage called in 256 by Saint Cyprianus to discuss the 'lapsed' Christians who preferred forced

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to martyrdom * Donatus, mentioned after 406, praised by Saint Augustine of Hippo in '' Contra Cresconium'' for abjuring the heresy Donatism * Aurelius participated in the 411 council of Carthage (where both Catholic and heretical bishops were invited) as well as his Donatist counterpart from Macomades, Sallustius * Pardalius was exiled after participating in the 484 synod of Carthage, called by the Vandal king Huneric, an Arian; in 487 he parttook, probably as Numidian delegate, in Pope Felix III's Lateran Council. * Florentino Armas Lerena (8 April 1967 25 November 1979), while first Bishop-Prelate of Territorial Prelature of Chota and still on emeritate * Ricardo Watty Urquidi (27 May 1980 6 November 1989), as Auxiliary Bishop of Mexico City, later Bishop of Nuevo Laredo, Bishop of Tepic * Francisco Clavel Gil (from 27 June 2001), emeritus as former Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Mexico City

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