Tubia in Mauretania
Roman North Africa.
The Diocese of Tubia (Dioecesis Tubiensis) is a suppressed and titular See the province of Mauritania Caesariensis of the Roman Catholic Church.[1][2][3] Tubia was a city in North Africa during the Roman, Byzantine and Vandal empires that is identifiable with the ruins of Henchir-Toubia (Qar`at aţ Ţūbīyah) in Modern Algeria.
Bishopric
Felix was the only known Bishop of this African diocese from antiquity. He is known as he took part in the Conference of 411, between Catholic and Donatist Bishops of Roman Africa. (Felix was a Catholic)
Today Tubia survives as titular bishopric, the current archbishop is Dominik Hrušovský, former apostolic nuncio.[4]
Known bishops
rightCoA of Bishop.
- Felix (fl 411 )
- Pierre-Jean-Marie-Louis Peurois, OFM † (May 25, 1936 - March 13, 1959)
- Alfred Bengsch (May 2, 1959 - August 16, 1961, Bishop of Berlin )
- Théophile Mbemba (11 November 1961 - 23 May 1964 of Brazzaville )
- Juozapas Pletkus (8 November 1967 - 29 September 1975)
- Otto Wüst (27 November 1975 - 21 September 1982 bishop of Basel )
- Dominik Hrušovský, from 18 December 1982.
See also
- Tubunae another town and Bishopric in Roman Algeria.
References
- ↑ Titular Episcopal See of Tubia at GCathoic.org.
- ↑ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana, Vol.I, (Brescia 1816), p. 330.
- ↑ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae , Leipzig 1931, p. 469.
- ↑ Tubia (Titular See) at Catholic heirachy.org.
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