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Nicives, identifiable with N'Gaous in Batna Province, Algeria, was an ancient Roman town of the Roman province of Numidia. [1]

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The town was the seat of a late antiquity Christian bishopric [2] [3] There are three bishops known from Niceives.

The town lasted as a legal entity, through the Byzantine period, till the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb in the 7th century.

Today Nicives survives as a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church and the current bishop is Andrzej Jerzy Zglejszewski, auxiliary bishop of Rockville. [5]

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References

  1. "Titular See of Nicives, Algeria". GCatholic. Retrieved 2023-12-01.
  2. Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 467
  3. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 243.
  4. J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912) p. 343.
  5. La sede titolare at www.catholic-hierarchy.org.