Bir-Mecherga
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Bir Mcherga ( Arabic : بئر مشارڨة ) is a town and commune in the
It is located fifty kilometers southwest of Tunis at 36° 31 'north, 9° 58 'east, in the Zaghouan Governorate. As of 2004 it had a population of 7,203.[1]
Modern town
Bir Mchergais is a municipality of 7203 inhabitants and the chief town of a 'delegation' of 21 508 inhabitants comprising several sectors including that of Djebel Oust.[2]
The city participates in the loosening of the industrial activities of the capital, notably because of its situation on the RN3 . With Djebel Oust, it hosts three large industrial zones on more than 300
Bir Mcherga is located a few kilometers from the dam of Bir Mcherga, one of two dams on the Wadi
History
Giufi was among the many cities of sufficient importance to become a
It historically documented bishops were, as phrased in the sources :
- Victor, episcopus plebis Iufitanae, who intervened at the Council of Carthage called in 411, among the Catholic bishops, without schismatic counterpart of the disputed and condemned heresy Donatism
- Fortunius, episcopus ecclesiae Ofitanae, participant at the African council of 646 which pronounced against monothelitism as a heresy on instigation of monk Maximus the Confessor.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin
Bishops of Giufi | ||||
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From | Until | Incumbent | Notes | |
25 December 1949 | 25 April 1959 | John Baptist Hubert Theunissen, S.M.M. | Simultaneously Apostolic Vicar of Blantyre in Malawi. On 25 April 1959 appointed as Archbishop of Blantyre. | |
10 October 1959 | 14 December 1978 | Bogdan Stefanov Dobranov | Previously a priest. On 22 July 1975 appointed as Apostolic Vicar of Sofia-Plodviv in Bulgaria . On 14 December 1978 appointed as Bishop of Sofia-Plovdiv.
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14 September 1980 | 29 July 1985 | Petar Čule | The only Archbishop of Giufi. Previously Bishop of Yugoslavia . Died in office.
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28 August 1987 | 6 November 2004 | Edouard Mathos | Simultaneously Bishop Coadjutor of Bossangoa in the Central African Republic. On 6 November 2004 appointed as Bishop of Bambari in the Central African Republic. | |
9 March 2005 | 26 September 2012 | Tomé Ferreira da Silva | Simultaneously Bishop Coadjutor of São Paulo in Brazil. On 26 September 2012 appointed as Bishop of São José do Rio Preto in Brazil. | |
20 February 2013 | 31 May 2017 | José Mário Scalon Angonese | Simultaneously Bishop Coadjutor of Curitiba in Brazil. On 31 May 2017 appointed as Bishop of Uruguaiana in Brazil. | |
31 July 2017 | 30 May 2020 | Jesús Castro Marte | Simultaneously Bishop Coadjutor of Santo Domingo in Dominican Republic. | |
4 November 2020 | present | Valter Magno de Carvalho | Simultaneously Auxiliary Bishop of São Salvador da Bahia in Brazil. | |
Sources:[3] |
See also
- Giufi Salaria
- List of Catholic dioceses in Algeria
References
- ^ (in French) Recensement de 2004 (Institut national de la statistique) Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Institut National de la Statistique - Tunisie". Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2009-02-07.
- ^ "Giufi". Catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
Sources and external links
- Bibliography - ecclesiastical history
- J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, Paris 1912, p. 108