Capra (Mauretania Caesariensis)

Capra was a town in the late Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis, in what is today the area of Béni Mansour and Béni Abbès, Algeria.

Victor Vitensis speaks of Capra Picta as a town in that province, where some Catholics sent there into internal exile under the Arian Genseric, king of the Vandals from 428 to 477, converted a great number of the local population to Christianity.[1]

In the Notitia Provinciarum et Civitatum Africae,[2] Primus, bishop of the church in Capra, appears in the list of the Catholic bishops whom Huneric summoned to Carthage in 484 and then exiled.[3][1][4]

No longer a residential bishopric, Capra is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.[5]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, pp. 117–118
  2. ↑ Johann Peter Kirsch, "Notitia Provinciarum et Civitatum Africae" in Catholic Encyclopedia (New York 1911)
  3. ↑ [Incertus,_MLT.pdf Notitia Provinciarum et Civitatum Africae]
  4. ↑ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 464
  5. ↑ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 858