Ksar Sbahi
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Ksar Sbahi is a town and commune in Oum El Bouaghi Province, Algeria and the site of Ancient Gadiaufala, a Roman city and former bishopric, now a Latin Catholic titular see.
According to the 1998 census it has a population of 11,095.[1]
History
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Gadiaufala was important enough in the
suffragan bishopric of its capital's Metropolitan Archbishop of ?Cirta
, but later faded.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored as a
titular bishopric
in 1933. It has had the following incumbents, all of the lowest (episcopal) rank :
- Luciano José Cabral Duarte (1966.07.14 – 1971.02.12), as Auxiliary Bishop of Aracaju(Brazil) (1966.07.14 – 1971.02.12); later succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Aracaju (1971.02.12 – 1998.08.26), First Vice-President of Latin American Episcopal Council (1979 – 1983)
- Cardinal-Priestof S. Saturnino (2003.10.21 [2004.03.13] – 2012.06.04)
- Jesús Arturo Roldán (1980.05.26 – 1991.11.09)
- Elmo Noel Joseph Perera (1992.12.17 – 1995.06.01)
- Antonio Federico Gatti (1996.07.01 – 1998.07.09)
- Dieudonné Bogmis (1999.02.09 – 2004.10.15)
- François Xavier Lê Văn Hồng (2005.02.19 – 2012.08.18), as Auxiliary Bishop of Huê(Vietnam) (2005.02.19 – 2012.08.18), next Metropolitan Archbishop of Huê (Vietnam) (2012.08.18 – ...), also Vice-President of Episcopal Conference of Vietnam (2013 – ...)
- Joseph Đinh Đức Đạo (2013.02.28 – 2015.06.04)
- Apostolic Administrator of Makeni(Sierra Leone)
References
- ^ Statoids
- ^ Head, Barclay; et al. (1911), "Numidia", Historia Numorum (2nd ed.), Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 886
Source and External links
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36°05′N 7°15′E / 36.083°N 7.250°E
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