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Phoenician and Carthaginian colony and Roman town
Rusubbicari was a
Phoenician and
Carthaginian
colony and
Roman town. It has been tentatively identified with ruins at
Zemmouri El Bahri,
Algeria .
[1] The Roman town was in the
province of
Mauretania Caesariensis .
[2]
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Name
The present name is a masculine plural noun, suggesting it may have originally consisted of two or three separate settlements. It seems to a
latinization of a
Phoenician name including the element rush (
Punic : 𐤓𐤀𐤔 , RʾŠ , "
cape ") and a local
Berber placename.
Religion
Rusubbicari was a
Christian
bishopric in late antiquity and is a
Catholic
titular see (
Latin : Dioecesis Rusubbicarensis ).
[6]
List of bishops
At the
411 Carthage conference between Catholic baptists and
Donatists of
Roman Africa , the town was represented 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 .
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See also
References
Citations
^ Salama, Pierre.
Sites commerciaux antiques sur le littoral de l’Algérois . In: Mélanges de l'École française de Rome: Antiquité , vol. 118, n°2. 2006. pp. 527-547.
^
Pius Bonifacius Gams , Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae , (Leipzig, 1931) p. 468.
^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana , Volume I, (Brescia, 1816) p. 267.
^ J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne , (Paris, 1912) pp. 461–462.
^
Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013,
ISBN
978-88-209-9070-1 ), "Sedi titolari", pp. 819-1013
^
Rusubbicarensis at Catholic-hierarchy.org.
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