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Diocese of Maxita

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The Diocese of Maxita (Massita in curiate Italian) is a bishopric in Algeria. It was a Roman Catholic Church diocese in the Roman province of Africa Proconsulare.[1][2][3][4]

History

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Roman North Africa

Maxita is located in the Al-Asnam region of Algeria. It is an ancient Christian episcopal see in the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis,[5] suffragan of the Metropolitan of its capital Caesarea Mauretaniae.

It may have been centered on the unrecorded basilica discovered at Al Asnam, but was to fade.

Only one bishop is known from antiquity: Felix (Italian: Felice), among the Catholic prelates summoned to the Council of Carthage (484) by the Arian Vandal king Huneric.

Titulars see

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The diocese of Maxita (the Italian Curiate form being Massita) was nominally restored in 1933 as a titular bishopric, of the lowest (episcopal) rank.

It has had the following, near-consecutive incumbents:

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Stephanus Antonius Morcelli, Africa Christiana; in tres partes tributa. -Brixiae, Offic. Bettoniana 1816–1817 (Offic. Bettoniana, 1816) p42.
  2. ^ François Sabbathier, Dictionary for the understanding of the classics, Greek and Latin authors: sacred and profane tants, containing the geography, history, fable, and antiques (Seneuze, 1780) p561.
  3. ^ Maxita at catholic-hierarchy.[self-published source]
  4. ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig 1931), p. 467
  5. ^ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013), ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1, "Sedi titolari", pp. 819-1013
  6. ^ Diocese of Bathurst|Bathurst Canada, at GCatholic.org.
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