Thucca in Numidia

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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.

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Roman province Africa proconsularis. Africa proconsularis SPQR.png
Roman province Africa proconsularis.

History

The city in the Roman province of Numidia, and has been tentatively identified with ruins at modern Henchir-El-Abiodh, present Algeria, was important to become one of its many suffragan dioceses, in the papal sway, yet was destined to fade.

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Numidia Ancient Berber kingdom in North Africa

Numidia was an ancient Berber kingdom of the Numidians, located in what is now Algeria and a smaller part of Tunisia and Libya in the Berber world, in North Africa. The polity was originally divided between Massylii in the east and Masaesyli in the west. During the Second Punic War, Massinissa, 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. It was bordered by Atlantic ocean to the west, Africa Proconsularis to the east, the Mediterranean Sea to the north, and the Sahara Desert to the south. It is considered to be one of the first major states in the history of Algeria and the Berber world.

Ruins Remains of human-made architecture

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Two of its residential Bishops are historically documented :

The city and bishopric lasted till the 7th century Muslim conquest of the Maghreb, today it is incorporated into northern Algeria.

Muslim conquest of the Maghreb

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Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin titular bishopric [1] Thucca in Numidia (Latin) / Tucca di Numidia (Curiate Italian) / Thuccen(sis) in Numidia (Latin adjective).

It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank with an Eastern Catholic and an (other) archiepiscopal exception : [2]

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References

  1. ↑ "Titulare T". www.apostolische-nachfolge.de. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  2. ↑ http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t1881.htm GCatholic.org
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