Diocese of Mauriana
The Diocese of Mauriana (in Latin: Dioecesis Maurianensis) is a suppressed and titular See of the Roman Catholic Church.
During the Roman Empire the seat of the diocese was Mauriana, a Roman Town of the Roman province of Mauritania Cesariense. TheRoman town is now lost to history but flourished in Late Antiquity though it did not last long after the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb. An exact location for that town is not known but Mauriana, was in what is today Algeria.[1]
Known Bishops
Two bishops are known to us from antiquity, and five from the 20th century.
- Luciano (Fl 337 circa)
- Secondo (fl 484)
- Johannes Gerardus Maria Willebrands (1964-1969)
- Pio Laghi (1969-1991
- Petar Šolic (1991 - 1992)
- Juan Carlos Maccarone (1993 - 1996)
- Nicholas Anthony DiMarzio (1996 - 1999)
- Aurel Percă, (1999- current)
History
Second, who took part in the synod assembled in Carthage by the Arian King Huneric of the Vandal Kingdom in 484, after which he was exiled. Morcelli[2] also assigned to Mauriana the bishop Luciano, who would attend a council in Rome in 337; According to Mesnage[3] however, he must have been from another bishopric, because he can not understand how a dark bishop of Mauritania Cesariense could attend a synod in Rome in the first half of the fourth century.
Today Mauriana survives as a titular bishopric[4] and the current Bishopis Aurel Percă, auxiliary bishopof Iaşi.[5]
References
- ↑ Entry at www.gcatholic.org.
- ↑ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 218.
- ↑ Joseph Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912), p. 495.
- ↑ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 467.
- ↑ Entry at www.catholic-hierarchy.org.