Gunugus

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Gunugus was an ancient Roman-Berber colonia of the Roman province of Mauritania Cesariense. It existed through the Vandal period and the Byzantine and Roman Empires.[1]]].[2]

The colony was founded by the Roman Emperor Augustus, and a settlement on the site lasted from 550BC to AD640 under the Punic, Vandal and Roman Empires.[3][4] It is possible that it was constructed on a prior Greek port town.[5]

The site of the ancient town has been tentitivly identified with Sidi Brahim de Gouraya, on the Mediterranean Coast (near Gouraya) (36.570982, 1.90305[6]) in today's Algeria,[7] though there is some doubt of this identification.

Bishopric

The town was also the seat of an ancient Roman Catholic bishopric.[8] [9] The only known bishop of this diocese is Ausilio, who took part in the synod assembled in Carthage in 484AD by the Vandal King Huneric, after which Ausilio was exiled. Today Gunugo Diocese survives as a titular bishopric[10] of the Roman Catholic Church and the current bishop is Vigilio Mario Olmi, of Brescia.[11]

References

  1. ↑ https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/295268
  2. ↑ http://imperium.ahlfeldt.se/places/22357.html
  3. ↑ http://www.trismegistos.org/place/20517
  4. ↑ Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 30 C3.
  5. ↑ https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/295268/gunugu
  6. ↑ https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/295268
  7. ↑ Titular Episcopal See of Gunugus, at GCatholic.org.
  8. ↑ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p.466.
  9. ↑ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p.177.
  10. ↑ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), "Sedi titolari", pp. 819-1013
  11. ↑ http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d2g68.html
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