Thagora

Thagora was a town in the Roman province of Numidia corresponding to Taoura in Algeria.

The Tabula Peutingeriana calls it Thacora.

Bishopric

Thagora was also a bishopric that, no longer being a residential see, is included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees.^[1]

Diocesan bishops

The names of three of its diocesan bishops are known:^[2]

• Xanthippus, mentioned by Augustine of Hippo in 401
• Postumianus, who participated in the Conference of Carthage in 411
• Timotheus, twentieth in the list of the Catholic bishops whom Hunneric summoned to Carthage in 484 and then exiled.

Titular bishops

• John Baptist Cahill (1900)
• Alexandre Piquemal (1909–1920)
• Miguel de los Santos Díaz y Gómara (1920–1924)
• Jozef Cársky (1925–1962)
• Carlo Livraghi (1962–1975)
• Eduardo Martínez Somalo (1975–1988)
• Cipriano Calderón Polo (1988–2009)
• Giuseppe Marciante (2009–)

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