Bordj-Bou-Djadi
Bordj-Bou-Djadi is an archaeological site and former
Latin Catholic titular see
.
History
The stone ruins at Bordj-Bou-Djadi have been tentatively identified with the
BC until around 640AD
.
Several of its bishops are known from antiquity:[3]
- Vitalis fl. 314, participant at the Council of Arles in 314 which condemned Donatismas heresy.
- Victor fl. 404, whose son left an epitaph in Rome
- Maximinus participated in the Council of Carthage in 411with other Catholic and Donatist bishops, including his schismatic counterpart Vitalis, 411
- Quoduultdeus fl. 416–429, participated in the Council of Carthage in 419on appeals to Rome
- Exitiosus fl. 484, participated in the Council of Carthage called in 484 by king Huneric of the Vandal Kingdom, after which he was exiled, like most Catholic bishops.
Titular see
The ancient diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin
Roman Catholic Church,[4]
as Ucres (Latin and Curiate Italian) / Ucren(sis) (Latin adjective)/
It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank:
- Franz Hoowaarts, 曹州 (Tsaochowfu, China) (1946.04.11 – death 1954.03.24)
- Bernard Denis Stewart (1946.12.12 – 1950.08.18) as ) (1946.12.12 – 1950.08.18), succeeded as (first native) Bishop of Sandhurst (1950.08.18 – retired 1979.04.21); died 1988
- Antônio Batista Fragoso (1957.03.13 – 1964.04.28) as Auxiliary Bishop of São Luís do Maranhão (Brazil) (1957.03.13 – 1964.04.28), later Bishop of Crateús(Brazil) (1964.04.28 – retired 1998.02.18); died 2006
- Antulio Parrilla-Bonilla, Jesuits (S.J.) (1965.05.25 – death 1994.01.03) as Auxiliary Bishop of Caguas (Puerto Rico, US) (1965.05.25 – retired 1968) and on emeritate
- Guillermo Rodríguez Melgarejo (1994.06.25 – 2003.05.30) as Auxiliary Bishop of San Martín(Argentina) (2003.05.30 – ...)
- Edgar Moreira da Cunha, Divine Word Missionaries (S.D.V.) (2003.06.27 – 2014.07.03) as Auxiliary Bishop of Newark (New Jersey, USA) (2003.06.27 – 2014.07.03), later Bishop of Fall River(USA) (2014.07.03 – ...)
- Roy Edward Campbell (2017.03.08 – ...), Auxiliary Bishop of Washington (DC, USA) (2017.03.08 – ...).
See also
- List of Catholic dioceses in Tunisia
References
- ^ Titular Episcopal See of Ucres
- ^ Ucres.
- ISBN 9782222021742.
- ^ Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 172, Number 14,448
Sources and external links
- Bibliography
- J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, Paris 1912, pp. 51–52