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Roman Empire - Mauretania Caesariensis (125 AD)
The diocese of Timis (Latin: Dioecesis Timicitana) is a suppressed and titular seeof the Roman Catholic Church in the province of Mauretania Caesariensis.[1][2]
The cathedra of the diocese was Timics, a Roman town of Mauretania Caesariensis which has been tentatively 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 Council of Carthage (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 in 484 by King Huneric of the Vandal Kingdom, 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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