Maximiana in Numidia

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Maximiana in Numidia was an Ancient city and bishopric in Roman Africa and remains a Latin Catholic titular see.

A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese".

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Its presumed location are the ruins of Mexmeia, in present Algeria.

Algeria Country in North Africa

Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a sovereign state in the Maghreb region of North Africa. The capital and most populous city is Algiers, located in the far north of the country on the Mediterranean coast. With an area of 2,381,741 square kilometres (919,595 sq mi), Algeria is the tenth-largest country in the world, the world's largest Arab country, and the largest in Africa. Algeria is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia, to the east by Libya, to the west by Morocco, to the southwest by the Western Saharan territory, Mauritania, and Mali, to the southeast by Niger, and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea. The country is a semi-presidential republic consisting of 48 provinces and 1,541 communes (counties). It has the highest human development index of all the non-island African countries.

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Maximiana was important enough in the Roman province of Numidia to become one of its Metropolitan's many suffragan bishoprics, but was to fade.

Roman province Major Roman administrative territorial entity outside of Italy

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Numidia Ancient Berber kingdom in North Africa

Numidia was the ancient kingdom of the Numidians located in what is now Algeria and a smaller part of Tunisia and small part of Libya in the Maghreb. The polity was originally divided between Massylii in the east and Masaesyli in the west. During the Second Punic War, Masinissa, king of the Massylii, defeated Syphax of the Masaesyli to unify Numidia into one kingdom. The kingdom began as a sovereign state and later alternated between being a Roman province and a Roman client state.

The diocese was nominally restored in 1925 as the titular bishopric of Maximiana, renamed in 1933 Maximiana in Numidia.

It has had the following incumbents, of the lowest (episcopal) rank, except a single archiepiscopal (intermediary rank) :

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Zaraï

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.

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