Tuscamia

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Tuscamia was an ancient Roman-Berber civitas in the province of Mauretania Caesariensis. The town is known from late antiquity having flourished through the Vandal Kingdom and Roman Empire, and possibly through the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb. The exact location of the ancient town is now lost to history, [1] but it was somewhere in today's Algeria.

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Tuscamia, was also the seat of an ancient Catholic [2] bishopric. [3] [4] The only known bishop of this African diocese is Massimo, who took part in the synod assembled in Carthage in 484 by the Arian King Huneric the Vandal, after which Massimo was exiled. [5] [6]

Today Tuscamia survives as titular see of the Roman Catholic Church [7] and the current bishop is Antônio Augusto Dias Duarte, auxiliary bishop of Rio de Janeiro. [8] Guido Del Mestri [9] and Filippo Santoro were both long-term bishops of the diocese in the 20th century.

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References

  1. ↑ Tuscamia at gcatholic.org].
  2. ↑ Tuscamia at catholic-hierarchy.org.
  3. ↑ Joseph Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticae: Or, The Antiquities of the Christian ..., Volume 3 (William Straker and J. H. Parker, 1840) p232.
  4. ↑ Antoine Godeau, Algemeine Kirchengeschichte: Enthält die Kirchengeschichte des vierten (Rieger, 1771 ) p66.
  5. ↑ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 469.
  6. ↑ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 341.
  7. ↑ "Titulare T". www.apostolische-nachfolge.de. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
  8. ↑ Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 178, Number 14,833.
  9. ↑ Harris M. Lentz III, Popes and Cardinals of the 20th Century: A Biographical Dictionary (McFarland, 23 Mar. 2009 ) p60.


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