Masuccaba

Roman Empire - Mauretania Caesariensis (125 AD)

Masuccaba an ancient Roman town in the Roman province of Mauritania Cesariense (North Africa).

The ancient town was also the seat of a Christian Bishopric[1][2] called in Latin Dioecesis Masuccabensis. The only known ancient bishop of this town was Passinato, who took part in the synod assembled in Carthage by the Arian King Huneric of the Vandal kingdom in 484, after which Passinato was exiled to Vandal controlled Sicily.

Today Masuccaba survives as a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church the location of Masuccaba is not exactly known,[3] but it is presumed to be in today's Algeria. The current bishop is Giovanni Bernardo Gremoli, former apostolic vicar of Arabia.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig, 1931), p. 467.
  2. ↑ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 216.
  3. ↑ [http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t1108.htm Titular Episcopal See of Masuccaba], at GCatholic.org.
  4. ↑ , at catholic-hierarchy.org.
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