Germania in Numidia
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Germania in Numidia is a former ancient city and Roman bishopric and current Latin Catholic titular see. It was in the Roman province of Numidia.
History
[edit]Germania was thought to have been located near modern Ksar-El-Kelb? in present-day Algeria. It was sufficiently important within the Roman province of Numidia to be a suffragan bishopric of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Cirta (modern Constantine), but faded.
Bishopric
[edit]Ancient bishops
[edit]A bishopric was established here During the Roman Empire. It stopped functioning in the 7th century with the Islamic expansion. Known bishops include
Titular see
[edit]The diocese was nominally restored as a titular see in 1933. It has had the following (near-consecutive) incumbents, both of the lowest (episcopal) and intermediary (archiepiscopal) ranks:
- Augustin Bea, S.J. (1962)
- José del Carmen Valle Gallardo (1963–1966)
- Ângelo Maria Rivato, S.J. (1967–1978)
- Domingo Salvador Castagna (1978–1984), Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires
- Isaías Duarte Cancino (1985–1988), Auxiliary Bishop of Bucaramanga
- Erwin Josef Ender (1990–2022), Apostolic Nuncio (papal ambassador) emeritus to Germany
- Paul Lee Kyung-sang (2024-present), Auxiliary Bishop of Seoul
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, pp. 168–169.