Giru Mons

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Giru Mons is an ancient town of the Roman Empire and a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church. [1] [2] [3] [4] The ancient town has been tentatively identified with ruins at Yerroum, northern Algeria. [5]

Giru Mons (Latin: Diocesis Girumontensis) was the capital of a historic diocese in the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis, [6] [7] which ceased to function in the 7th century during the Islamic expansion, into northern Algeria. The only known ancient bishop of this diocese is Reparatus, who took part in the synod assembled in Carthage in 484 by King Huneric of the Vandal Kingdom, after which Reparatus was exiled. At present the Catholic bishops are titular. [8]

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References

  1. Joseph Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticae; Or the Antiquities of the Christian Church, Volume 3. (Straker, 1843 ) p232.
  2. Dictionarium ... ex alijs eiusdem autoris commentarijs: tum ex lexico Latino (1561).
  3. Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 466.
  4. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 173.
  5. Giru Mons, at www.gcatholic.org
  6. Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN   978-88-209-9070-1), "Sedi titolari", pp. 819-1013
  7. La sede titolare nel sito di www.catholic-hierarchy.org.
  8. Bishops Titulas Giru Mons at GCatholic.org.