Ausuaga

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Ausuaga is an ancient city and former bishopric in Roman Africa. [1] It is currently a Latin Catholic titular see. Its present location is somewhere in modern Tunisia.

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History

Ausuaga was important enough in the Roman province of Africa proconsularis to become one of the many suffragans of its great capital Carthage's Metropolitan Archbishop, but was to fade like most.

Titular see

In 1989 it was nominally restored as a Latin titular bishopric.

It has had the following incumbents, all of the lowest (episcopal) rank :

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References

  1. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church: St. Augustin: The writings against the Manichæans, and against the Donatists. [1905. Scribner's. 1887. p. 503.