Rusubbicari

Roman Empire - Mauretania Caesariensis (125 AD)

The diocese of Rusubbicari (Latin: Dioecesis Rusubbicarensis) is a suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.[1]

The seat of the diocese of Rusubbicari, was an ancient Roman town of the same name that has been tentatively identified with ruins at Mers El Hadjadj in today's Algeria. The ancient bishopric was in the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis.[2][3][4]

Known bishops

  • At the 411 Carthage conference between Catholic baptists and Donatists of Roman Africa, the town was reperesented by the Donatist Costanzo as the diocese on that occasion had no Catholic bishops.
  • Paolino participated in the synod assembled in Carthage in 484 by the Vandal King Huneric, after which Paolino was exiled.
  • José da Silva Chaves (November 29, 1967 – May 14, 1976 appointed bishop of Uruaç)
  • Victor León Esteban San Miguel y Erce (May 31, 1976 – April 4, 1995 deceased)
  • Douglas William Young (14 April 2000 – 17 July 2006 appointed Archbishop of Mount Hagen)
  • Sergio Osvaldo Buenanueva (July 16, 2008 – May 31, 2013 appointed bishop of San Francisco)
  • Jose Puthenveettil, since August 23, 2013

Today Rusubbicari survives as a titular bishopric holder; The current bishop is Jose Puthenveettil, auxiliary bishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), "Sedi titolari", pp. 819-1013
  2. ↑ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931) p. 468.
  3. ↑ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816) p. 267.
  4. ↑ J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912) pp. 461–462.
  5. ↑ Rusubbicarensis at Catholic-hierarchy.org.


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