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Castellum Minus was an ancient city located in the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis in today's northern Algeria. [1] [2] The ancient city is identified with ruins near Coléa, Algeria, [3] (at 35.3877778° latitude and 0.1416667° longitude).
The ancient town was also the seat of a Christian bishopric. [4] [5] Which remains today a titular see [6] in the Roman Catholic Church. [7]
References
- ^ Castellum Minus, at Catholic-hierarchy.org.
- ^ Joseph Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticae: Or, The Antiquities of the Christian Church, Volume 3. (William Straker and J. H. Parker, 1840) p 232.
- ^ Cheney, David M. "Castellum Minus (Titular See) [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
- ^ Gaetano Moroni, Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica da S. Pietro sino ai nostri.(Tip. Emiliana, 1841). p212.
- ^ Charles Louis Richard, Jean Joseph Giraud, Bibliothèque sacrée, ou, Dictionnaire universel historique, dogmatique. (1822) p193.
- ^ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), "Sedi titolari", pp. 819-1013
- ^ Castellum minus at GCatholic.org.