Quaestoriana
Byzacena in the Roman Empire
Quaestoriana (also spelled Quæstoriana) was an ancient town and bishopric in Roman Byzacena(North Africa).[1] Quaestoriana is also a suppressed and titular see of the province of Bizacena (North Africa) in the Roman Catholic Chuirch. The current Bishop is Manuel Antonio Valarezo Luzuriaga.[2] Its present location is in modern Tunisia.
History
Quaestoriana was important enough in the Late Roman province of Byzacena to become one of the many suffragans of its capital Hadrumetum (Sousse)'s Metropolitan Archbishopric, but like most was to fade.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored as titular bishopric in 1933.[3] It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting episcopal (lowest) rank, except the archiepiscopal first :
- Titular Archbishop Jean-Berchmans-Marcel-Yves-Marie-Bernard Chabbert, Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (1967.04.13 – 1968.01.15) as Coadjutor Archbishop of Rabat (Morocco) (1967.04.13 – 1968.01.15), succeeded as Archbishop of Rabat (1968.01.15 – 1982.07.17), later Archbishop-Bishop of Perpignan–Elne (France) (1982.07.17 – 1996.01.16)
- Joseph A. Carroll (1968.10.04 – death 1992.02.29), as Auxiliary Bishop of Dublin (Ireland) (1968.10.04 – 1989.06.15) and as emeritatus
- Michael Neary (1992.05.20 – 1995.01.17), later Metropolitan Archbishop of Tuam (Ireland) (1995.01.17 – ...)
- Manuel Antonio Valarezo Luzuriaga (1996 - ...), O.F.M., Apostolic Vicar emeritus of Galápagos (Ecuador)
References
- ↑ Joseph Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticae, Volume 3 p231.
- ↑ Quaestoriana.
- ↑ David M. Cheney, Quaestoriana at Catholic Heirachy.org
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