Diocese of Tamada

Mauretania Caesariensis (125 AD).

Tamada was a Ancient Roman town of the Roman province of Mauritania Cesariense. The town lasted through the Byzantine, Vandal and Roman Empires into late antiquity, till at least the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb in the 7th century.

The town was also the seat of an ancient Catholic Church diocese which survives today as a titular See of the Roman Catholic Church.[1]

Location

The ruins of Four Tamda are located 4 kilometers east of the city of Souagui, excavations in 1927 made it possible to find on the site of Ain Tamda the ruins of a christian monastery and a church, which date from the 4th century.[2] Aïn-Tamda is the site of the Roman town of Tamada.[3][4]

Bishopric

The ancient town of Tamada, was the seat of an ancient episcopal seat of Mauritania Cesariense.[5][6]

The only known Catholic bishop of the diocese was Romano, who took part in the synod assembled in Carthage by the Arian King, Huneric of the Vandal Kingdom in 484AD, after which Romano was exiled.

A Donatist, bishop Tanudaidensis, has been attributed by Morcelli to Tamada,[7] but according to Mesnage he was from the diocese of Tanudaia.[8]

Today Tamada survives as a titular bishopric and the current Archbishop, personal title, is Aldo Giordano, apostolic nuncio in Venezuela. He replaced Santos Abril y Castelló in 2012.[9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Apostolische Nachfolge – Titularsitze
  2. ↑ Seston William. Le monastère d'Aïn-Tamda et les origines de l'architecture monastique en Afrique du Nord. In: Mélanges d'archéologie et d'histoire vol.51, (1934). pp. 79-113.
  3. ↑ J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912), pp.502–503.
  4. ↑ Tamada at gcatholic.org.
  5. ↑ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), "Sedi titolari", pp. 819-1013
  6. ↑ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 468.
  7. ↑ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), pp. 301–302.
  8. ↑ J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912), pp. 502–503.
  9. ↑ http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d2t29.html
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