Rusubbicari

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Coordinates 36°48′N3°34′E / 36.800°N 3.567°E / 36.800; 3.567

Rusubbicari was a Phoenician and Carthaginian colony and Roman town. It has been tentatively identified with ruins at Zemmouri El Bahri, Algeria. [1] The Roman town was in the province of Mauretania Caesariensis. [2] [3] [4]

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Name

The present name is a masculine plural noun, suggesting it may have originally consisted of two or three separate settlements. It seems to a latinization of a Phoenician name including the element rush (Punic : 𐤓‬𐤀𐤔‬, RʾŠ, "cape") and a local Berber placename. [5]

Religion

Rusubbicari was a Christian bishopric in late antiquity and is a Catholic titular see (Latin : Dioecesis Rusubbicarensis). [6]

List of bishops

Today Rusubbicari survives as a titular bishopric holder; The current bishop is Jose Puthenveettil, auxiliary bishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly. [7]

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References

Citations

  1. Salama, Pierre. Sites commerciaux antiques sur le littoral de l’Algérois. In: Mélanges de l'École française de Rome: Antiquité, vol. 118, n°2. 2006. pp. 527-547.
  2. Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931) p. 468.
  3. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816) p. 267.
  4. J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912) pp. 461–462.
  5. Lipiński (2004), p.  402.
  6. Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN   978-88-209-9070-1), "Sedi titolari", pp. 819-1013
  7. Rusubbicarensis at Catholic-hierarchy.org.

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