Bida (North Africa)

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Detail of the Tabula Peutingeriana map (1-4th century CE; facsimile edition by Conradi Millieri, 1887/1888) centered on Bida Peutinger-Bida.jpg
Detail of the Tabula Peutingeriana map (1-4th century CE; facsimile edition by Conradi Millieri, 1887/1888) centered on Bida

Bida is a former Ancient city and bishopric in Roman Africa, now a Latin Catholic titular see.

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Its presumed location are the ruins at present Djemaa Saharidj in modern Algeria. [1]

History

The city was important enough in the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis to become a suffragan bishopric of its capital's Metropolitan Archbishop, but was to fade. Campanus represented Bida at the Council of Carthage (424).

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored as a Latin Catholic titular bishopric in the 17th century as Bitha or Bita, renamed Bida in 1923–25.

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Franz Rudolf Bornewasser

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

See also

References

  1. ↑ Graham, Alexander (1902). Roman Africa. Longmans, Green, and Co. p. 312. Retrieved Dec 29, 2020.

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