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]
Aïn El Kebira is a city located 27 km north far from Sétif. As Ancient Satafis it was a bishopric, which remains a Catholic titular see.
Amourah, or Amoura is a town and Latin Catholic titular bishopric in Algeria.
Negrine is a town and commune in Tébessa Province in north-eastern Algeria. It was the site of ancient Casae Nigrae, a settlement of Roman North Africa with an attached bishopric that remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
Girus Tarasii was a town in the Roman province of Numidia that became a residential episcopal see. It is tentatively identified with ruins situated at what is now called Henchir-Tarsa in Algeria.
Nicives, identifiable with N'Gaous in Batna Province, Algeria, was an ancient Roman town of the Roman province of Numidia.
Thucca in Numidia was an Ancient Roman era town and the seat of an ancient Bishopric during the Roman Empire, which remains only as a Latin Catholic titular see.
Utimmira was an ancient Roman town of the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis. The town was somewhere near Carthage in today's Tunisia, but the exact location has been lost to history.
Giru Marcelli was a city and bishopric in Roman North Africa, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
Arsennaria was an ancient Roman town of the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis in North Africa, and an ancient episcopal see of the Roman Catholic Church.
Flenucleta was an ancient Berber, Roman and Byzantine civitas located in the Mediterranean hinterland of what was then the province of Mauretania Caesariensis. It was situated in present-day northern Algeria. The exact location of the city is unknown.
The Diocese of Manaccenser is a suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.
Castellum Tatroportus, also known as Tatroporto Castle or Latin: Diocesis Castellotatro-Portensis, was a Roman–Berber civitas and former Roman Catholic diocese that flourished through the Vandal and Roman eras and into late antiquity. It was located in the province of Mauretania Caesariensis in Africa Proconsulare, though an exact location has not been identified.
The diocese of Vannida Latin: Dioecesis Vannidensis) is a suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church. It was centered on the ancient Roman town of Vannida, in what is today Algeria, is an ancient episcopal seat of the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis.
Fidoloma was an ancient Roman Catholic diocese located in present-day Algeria. The bishopric was founded in the Roman–Berber province of Mauretania Caesariensis, though the seat of the diocese is unknown.
Castra Severiana was an ancient Roman-era town of the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis, in North Africa during late antiquity.
Numida was an ancient Roman town in the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis. It was located in modern northern Algeria.
Tuscamia was an ancient Roman-Berber civitas in the province of Mauretania Caesariensis. The town is known from late antiquity having flourished through the Vandal Kingdom and Roman Empire, and possibly through the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb. The exact location of the ancient town is now lost to history, but it was somewhere in today's Algeria.
The Diocese of Villanova is a suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.
The Diocese of Sita was a Christian diocese in Africa Proconsularis. It is presently a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.
The diocese of Garba is a suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.