Rotaria (adjective Rotariensis) was an ancient Roman and Byzantine era bishopric [1] of Numidia, North Africa.

The civitas turned predominantly Donatist (a schismatic heresy) in Churchmanship.[2] and appears to have been ethnically Roman rather than Berber.[3] It is a titular see[4][5] and the title is now held by Ivan Šaško, auxiliary bishop of Zagreb.

Rotaria has been identified with Henchir-Loulou, near Renier Algeria, but was located in the Roman province of Numidia.[6]

Nearby Azura, Numidia, also was a civitas and bishopric, and similarly now a Latin Catholic titular see.

Bishops

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Ivan Šaško.
  • Pavol Brezanóczy (15 September 1964 – 10 January 1969)[10]
  • Percival Caza (18 March 1969 – 26 November 1970) [11]
  • Vincent Madeley Harris (27 April 1971 – 15 November 1971)
  • Reinhard Lettmann (18 January 1973 – 11 January 1980)
  • Martino Scarafile (20 December 1980 – 31 October 1985)
  • Agustín Otero Largacha (3 May 1986 – 9 May 2004)
  • Gonzalo de Villa y Vásquez (9 July 2004 – 28 July 2007)
  • Ivan Šaško (11 February 2008 – present)

See also

References

  1. ↑ Christianography, of the Christian World (Robert Clavell, 1674) p167.
  2. ↑ Henri Irénée Marrou, André Mandouze, Anne-Marie La Bonnardière, Prosopographie de l'Afrique chrétienne (303–533) (Éditions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1 Jan. 1982) p 1170.
  3. ↑ ROMANISATION ET EVANGELISATION .
  4. ↑ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p.468.
  5. ↑ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, pp.262-263.
  6. ↑ H. Jaubert, /ark:/12148/bpt6k5457275x/f96.image "Évêchés Anciens et ruines chrétiennes de la Numidie et de la Sitifienne" in Reports of Notices et Memoires de la Société archéologique de Constantine, vol.46, 1913, p.72
  7. ↑ Henri Irénée Marrou, André Mandouze, Anne-Marie La Bonnardière, Prosopographie de l'Afrique chrétienne (303–533) (1982) p1280.
  8. ↑ Patrologiae cursus completus ...: Series latina, Volume 11(edited by Jacques-Paul Migne, 1845), p329.
  9. ↑ Acta conciliorum et epistolae decretales ac constitutiones summorum pontificum (edited by Jean Hardouin, Claude Rigaud (París))p7.
  10. ↑ Rotaria, at GCatholic.org.
  11. ↑ La sede titolare nel sito di www.catholic-hierarchy.org
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