Tuscamia

Tuscamia was a ancient Roman Town of the Roman province of Mauritania Cesariense.

The town is known from late Antiquity having flourished through the Vandal and Roman Empires, and possibly through the Muslim conquest of the Marghreb. The exact location of the ancient town is now lost to history,[1] but it was somewhere in today's Algeria.

Bishopric

Tuscamia, was also the seat of an ancient Christian[2] Bishopric.[3][4] The only known bishop of this African diocese is Massimo, who took part in the synod assembled in Carthage by the Arian King Huneric the vandal in 484, after which Massimo was exiled.[5][6]

Today Tuscamia survives as titular See of the Roman Catholic Church[7] and the current bishop is Antônio Augusto Dias Duarte, auxiliary bishop of Rio de Janeiro.[8] Guido Mestri[9] and Filippo Santoro were both long term bishops of the Diocese in the 20th century.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Tuscamia at gcatholic.org].
  2. ↑ Tuscamia at catholic Heirachy.org.
  3. ↑ Joseph Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticae: Or, The Antiquities of the Christian ..., Volume 3 (William Straker and J.H. Parker, 1840) p232.
  4. ↑ Antoine Godeau, Algemeine Kirchengeschichte: Enthält die Kirchengeschichte des vierten (Rieger, 1771 ) p66.
  5. ↑ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 469.
  6. ↑ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 341.
  7. ↑ Apostolische Nachfolge – Titularsitze
  8. ↑ Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 178, Number 14,833.
  9. ↑ Harris M. Lentz III, Popes and Cardinals of the 20th Century: A Biographical Dictionary (McFarland, 23 Mar. 2009 ) p60.
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