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Aquae Sirenses (Acque Sirensi), also known as Aquaesirensis, is an ancient Roman colonia and a modern titular see of the Roman Catholic Church in Algeria. [1] [2] [3]
The name means Sirens Water, and was a bath town.
The ruins of this ancient city are located near the thermal baths of Hammam Bou Hani.
There are two known bishops of this ancient diocese. Honoratus who represented the Donatists at the Council of Carthage (411). The grave of his sister Robba, revered as a martyr by the Donatists, was found in Ala Miliaria recently. The other Bishop, Felix was among the Catholic prelates summoned to Carthage in 484 by the Vandal king Huneric. The current bishop is Heinrich Janssen, former auxiliary bishop of Münster.
Donatism was a Christian sect leading to a schism in the church in the region of the Church of Carthage, from the fourth to the sixth centuries. Donatists argued that Christian clergy must be faultless for their ministry to be effective and their prayers and sacraments to be valid. Donatism had its roots in the long-established Christian community of the Roman province Africa Proconsularis and Mauretania Tingitana, in the persecutions of Christians under Diocletian. Named after the Berber Christian bishop Donatus Magnus, Donatism flourished during the fourth and fifth centuries. Donatism mainly spread among the indigenous Berber population, and Donatists were able to blend Christianity with many of the Berber local customs.
Cirta, also known by various other names in antiquity, was the ancient Berber, Punic and Roman settlement which later became Constantine, Algeria.
Zaraï was a Berber, Carthaginian, and Roman town at the site of present-day Aïn Oulmene, Algeria. Under the Romans, it formed part of the province of Numidia.
Donatus Magnus, also known as Donatus of Casae Nigrae, was the leader of a schismatic Christian sect known as the Donatists in North Africa, Algeria. He is believed to have died in exile around 355.
Djémila, formerly Cuicul, is a small mountain village in Algeria, near the northern coast east of Algiers, where some of the best preserved Roman ruins in North Africa are found. It is situated in the region bordering the Constantinois and Petite Kabylie.
Zuccabar was an ancient town in the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis. It is located in present-day Miliana, Algeria.
Segermes is an ancient town in Tunisia. Under the Roman Empire, the town belonged to the province of Byzacena. The town is identified with ruins at Henchir Harat, Zaghouan.
Amourah, or Amoura is a town and Latin Catholic titular bishopric in Algeria.
Boghar is a town and commune in Médéa Province, Algeria.
Avitta Bibba was a town in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis. The town is tentatively identified with ruins at Henchir-Bour-Aouitta in Tunisia.
Nicives, identifiable with N'Gaous in Batna Province, Algeria, was an ancient Roman town of the Roman province of Numidia.
The Diocese of Tubia is a suppressed and titular see in the province of Mauritania Caesariensis of the Roman Catholic Church. Tubia was a city in North Africa during the Roman, Byzantine and Vandal empires that is identifiable with the ruins of Henchir-Toubia.
Thiava was an ancient Roman-Berber civitas in Numidia, Africa Proconsulare and in the Vandal Kingdom. It was a Latin Catholic diocese.
Rotaria was an ancient Roman and Byzantine era bishopric of Numidia, North Africa.
Tigisis, also known as Tigisis in Mauretania to distinguish it from another Tigisis in Numidia, was an ancient Berber town in the province of Mauretania Caesariensis. It was mentioned in the Antonine Itinerary.
Macomades was a Carthaginian and Roman city in North Africa. It was located near present-day Oum-El-Bouaghi, Algeria
Baia was an ancient city and bishopric in the Roman province of Africa Proconsulare. It is now a Roman Catholic titular see.
The diocese of Siccesi is a suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.
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