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Catholic titular sees in Africa Catholic Church in Tunisia {{Christian-org-stub
Quaestoriana (also spelled Quæstoriana) was an ancient ''civitas
In Ancient Rome, the Latin term (; plural ), according to Cicero in the time of the late Roman Republic, was the social body of the , or citizens, united by Roman law, law (). It is the law that binds them together, giving them responsibilitie ...
'' (town) and bishopric
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History
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in Roman
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Byzacena
Byzacena (or Byzacium) (, ''Byzakion'') was a Late Roman province in the central part of Roman North Africa, which is now roughly Tunisia, split off from Africa Proconsularis.
History
At the end of the 3rd century AD, the Roman emperor Dioclet ...
(North Africa
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). Quaestoriana is also a suppressed and titular see
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of the province of Byzacena
Byzacena (or Byzacium) (, ''Byzakion'') was a Late Roman province in the central part of Roman North Africa, which is now roughly Tunisia, split off from Africa Proconsularis.
History
At the end of the 3rd century AD, the Roman emperor Dioclet ...
(North Africa) in the Roman Catholic Church
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. The current bishop
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is Manuel Antonio Valarezo Luzuriaga. Its present location is in modern Tunisia
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.
History
The exact location of the town is now lost to history though we do know it was acivitas
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of the Roman Province
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of Byzacena
Byzacena (or Byzacium) (, ''Byzakion'') was a Late Roman province in the central part of Roman North Africa, which is now roughly Tunisia, split off from Africa Proconsularis.
History
At the end of the 3rd century AD, the Roman emperor Dioclet ...
.
Ancient Bishopric
Quaestoriana was important enough in the LateRoman province
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of Byzacena
Byzacena (or Byzacium) (, ''Byzakion'') was a Late Roman province in the central part of Roman North Africa, which is now roughly Tunisia, split off from Africa Proconsularis.
History
At the end of the 3rd century AD, the Roman emperor Dioclet ...
to become one of the many suffragan
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s of its capital Hadrumetum
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(Sousse
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)'s Metropolitan Archbishopric but, like most, was to fade. The diocese of Questoriana was in the Roman province
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of Byzacena
Byzacena (or Byzacium) (, ''Byzakion'') was a Late Roman province in the central part of Roman North Africa, which is now roughly Tunisia, split off from Africa Proconsularis.
History
At the end of the 3rd century AD, the Roman emperor Dioclet ...
.
There are two documented bishops of this diocese:
* Vittoriano, who took part in the synod gathered in conference of 484 in Carthage
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that was called by the Vandal king Huneric
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, following which he was exiled;
*Stefano (called from the Beatus sources Stephanus, spes in Deo), who intervened at the Antimonotelite Council of Carthage in 641.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored astitular bishopric
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in 1933.
It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting episcopal (lowest) rank, ''except the archiepiscopal first'':
*Titular Archbishop Jean-Berchmans-Marcel-Yves-Marie-Bernard Chabbert, Friars Minor
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(O.F.M.) (1967.04.13 – 1968.01.15) as Coadjutor Archbishop The term "coadjutor" (literally "co-assister" in Latin) is a title qualifier indicating that the holder shares the office with another person, with powers equal to the other in all but formal order of precedence.
These include:
* Coadjutor bishop ...
of Rabat
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(Morocco
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) (1967.04.13 – 1968.01.15), succeeded as Archbishop of Rabat (1968.01.15 – 1982.07.17), later Archbishop-Bishop
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of Perpignan–Elne (France) (1982.07.17 – 1996.01.16)
* Joseph A. Carroll (1968.10.04 – death 1992.02.29), as Auxiliary Bishop
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...
of Dublin
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(Ireland) (1968.10.04 – 1989.06.15) and as emeritatus
* Michael Neary (1992.05.20 – 1995.01.17), later Metropolitan Archbishop of Tuam
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(Ireland
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) (1995.01.17 – ...)
* Manuel Antonio Valarezo Luzuriaga (1996 – ...), O.F.M., Apostolic Vicar emeritus of Galápagos (Ecuador
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)www.catholic-hierarchy.org
References
External links
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