Tigava

See Leistarcha scitissimella for the moth species also known as Tigava scitissimella

Tigava was an ancient Roman-Berber town and bishopric in Roman Africa, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.

It corresponds with the modern locality of El-Kherba in Algeria.

History

Tigava was one of many cities in the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis which were important enough to become a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archbishopric in its capital Caesarea Mauretaniae (modern Cherchell), but like most faded.

Saint Typasius was a veteran of the Roman garrison.

Titular see

Tigava's diocese is included in the Catholic Church's list of titular bishoprics ^[1] since it was nominally restored in 1933.

It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank : ^[2]

• Basile Tanghe, Capuchin Franciscans (O.F.M. Cap.) (1935.01.28 – death 1947.12.16) as first Apostolic Vicar of Belgian Ubangui (Congo-Kinshasa, then Belgian; now Molegbe diocese) (1935.01.28 – 1947.12.16), previously last Apostolic Prefect of Belgian Ubangui (1931.10.16 – 1935.01.28)
• Alfonse Bossart, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (O.M.I.) (1948.02.12 – death 1963.03.03) as first Apostolic Vicar of Ipamu (Congo-Kinshasa; now Idiofa diocese) (1948.02.12 – 1957) and on emeritate; previously last Apostolic Prefect of Ipamu (1937.06.11 – 1948.02.12)
• John Louis Morkovsky (1963.04.16 – 1975.04.22) as Coadjutor Bishop of Galveston–Houston (Texas, USA) (1963.04.16 – 1975.04.22), succeeded as Bishop of Galveston–Houston (1975.04.22 – retired 1984.08.21); previously Titular Bishop of Hieron (1955.12.22 – 1958.08.18) as Auxiliary Bishop of Amarillo (Texas, USA) (1955.12.22 – 1958.08.18), succeeding as Bishop of Amarillo (1958.08.18 – 1963.04.16); died 1990
• Bernhard Rieger (1984.12.20 – death 2013.04.10) as Auxiliary Bishop of Rottenburg–Stuttgart (Germany) (1984.12.20 – 1996.07.31) and on emeritate
• Leomar Antônio Brustolin (2015.01.07 – 2021.06.02) as Auxiliary Bishop of Porto Alegre (Brazil)

References

1. Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN   978-88-209-9070-1), p. 989
2. "Titular See of Tigava, Algeria". GCatholic. Retrieved 2018-01-29.