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Roman Empire - Mauretania Caesariensis (125 AD)
The diocese of Timis (in Latin: Dioecesis Timicitana) is a suppressed and titular seeof the Roman Catholic Church in the province of Mauritania Cesariense.[1][2]
The cathedra of the diocese was Timics, a Roman town of the Mauritania Cesariense which has been tentively identified with ruins at Timsioni in today's Algeria, North Africa.[3]
There are three documented bishops of this diocese from antiquity and six bishops of the re-established titular bishopric in modern times. Today, Timice survives as a bishopric holder; The current bishop-owner is Donald George Sproxton, Perth's auxiliary bishop.[4]
Known Bishops
- Vitorre a Catholic bishop who represented the town at the Councils of Carthage in 411, which heard the dispute between Catholic and Donatists.
- the Donatist Optato was Vittores' counterpart at the conference.
- Honorius participated in the synod assembled in Carthage by King huneric the vandal in 484, after the synod Honorius was exiled.
- Fernando Ariztía Ruiz (1967-1976)
- Ramón Darío Molina Jaramillo, (1977-1984)
- Toribio Ticona Porco(1986-1992)
- Francisco Cases Andreu(1994-1996)
- John Forrosuelo Du(1997-2001)[5]
- Donald George Sproxton(2001-current)
References
- ↑ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig, (1931), p. 469.
- ↑ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 325.
- ↑ Timici at gcatholic.org.
- ↑ Entry titolare at catholic-hierarchy.org.
- ↑ Timici at gcatholic.org.
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