Rusada
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Rusada or Rusado (Latin: Dioecesis Rusaditana) is a suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.
History
The bishopric of Rusada was founded in the Roman Empire.[1] [2] The seat of the diocese of was the ancient Roman town of the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis called Rusado, which has been tentatively identified with ruins at Azeffoun in today's Algeria.[3]
The diocese ceased to effectively function with the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb in the 7th century but Rusado survives as a titular bishopric, the current bishop being Georges Abou Khazen, apostolic vicar of Aleppo.
Known bishops
- Idonio, took part in the synod assembled in Carthage in 484 by the Vandal king Huneric, after which Idonio was exiled.
- Agapito Augusto Fiorentini (1902–1941)
- Juan Tarsicio Senner (1942–1951)
- Joseph Howard Hodges (1952–1962)
- Pavol Mária Hnilica (1964–2006)
- Pascal Jean Marcel Wintzer (2007–2012)
- Georges Abou Khazen (2013–current)
See also
References
- ↑ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 468.
- ↑ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 264.
- ↑ Rusada at www.gcatholic.org.
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