Tigisi in Mauretania

Detail of the Tabula Peutingeriana (1-4th century CE); showing Tigisi (Taourga)

Tigisi in Mauretania is an ancient Roman and Byzantine era civitas (town) of Africa Proconsulare and an episcopal see of the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis. It was mentioned in the Itinerarium Antonini Augusti Itinerarium.[1]

Tigis was situated between Dellys and Taourga in present-day Algeria. It is identified with ruins near Taourga. The town should not be confused with its more famous namesake Tigisi in the province of Numidia (modern Tunisia).

Bishopric

The city was also the seat of an ancient Catholic diocese.[2][3] There are three known African bishops of this diocese. The rival Catholic and Donatist bishops Solemnio and Pascasio both attended the conference of Carthage of 411, which saw gathered together the Catholics and Donatist bishops of Roman North Africa. Passinato intervened at the synod meeting in Carthage in 484 called by the Vandal king Huneric in 484, after which he was exiled.

Today Tigisi of Mauritania survives as titular bishop,[4] the current bishop is Tadeusz Bronakowski, auxiliary bishop of Łomża.[5]

Known bishops Three bishops of the town are known to us from antiquity:

  • Solemnius a Catholic Bishop fl. 411
  • Paschasius the rival Donatist bishop fl. 411
  • Passitanus Catholic bbishop fl. 484

Six Bishops have been appointed in modern times

  • Rodrigo Vicente Cisneros Durán (1 December 1967 – July 4, 1969)
  • Herbé Seijas (July 2, 1975 – October 15, 1975 )
  • Alejandro Mestre Descals (March 6, 1976 – June 26, 1988)
  • Martino Canessa (June 20, 1989 – 2 February 1996)
  • Thomas Koorilos Chakkalapadickal (May 9, 1997 – January 15, 2003)
  • Tadeusz Bronakowski, 11 February 2006

References

  1. ↑ Known to the ancient Romans, with the Itinerarium Antonini Augusti Itinerarium sive, in Jerusalem, and Hieroclis Synecdemus Itinerarium (1735).
  2. ↑ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 469.
  3. ↑ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 323.
  4. ↑ Tigisi in Mauretania.
  5. ↑ Titular Episcopal See of Tigisi in Mauretania.

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