Macomades
Macomades was a
Carthaginian and Roman city in North Africa. It was located near present-day Oum-El-Bouaghi, Algeria
History
Macomades was established as an inland
It was a town in the
province of Numidia
.
It was overrun by the Umayyad Caliphate during the 7th-century Muslim invasion.
Religion
No later than AD 256, the town was the
titular bishopric (diocesis Macomadensis).[2]
List of bishops
- Cassius, at the martyrdom
- Donatus, mentioned after 406, praised by Contra Cresconium for abjuring the heresy Donatism
- Aurelius participated in the 411 council of Carthage(where both Catholic and heretical bishops were invited) as well as his Donatist counterpart from Macomades, Sallustius
- Pardalius was exiled after participating in the 484 synod of Carthage, called by the Vandal king Huneric, an Arian; in 487 he parttook, probably as Numidian delegate, in Pope Felix III's Lateran Council.
- Florentino Armas Lerena (8 April 1967 – 25 November 1979), while first Territorial Prelature of Chotaand still on emeritate
- Ricardo Watty Urquidi (27 May 1980 – 6 November 1989), as Mexico City, later Bishop of Nuevo Laredo, Bishop of Tepic
- Francisco Clavel Gil (from 27 June 2001), emeritus as former Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Mexico City
See also
References
Citations
Bibliography
- Head, Barclay; et al. (1911), "Numidia", Historia Numorum (2nd ed.), Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 884–887.
- Huss, Werner (1990), Der Karthager, Munich: C.H. Beck, ISBN 9783406379123.