Media, Africa
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Media was an ancient city and former bishopric in
Roman North Africa, now a Latin Catholic titular see in Algeria
.
History
Media was important enough in the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis, in the papal sway, to become one of the many suffragan dioceses, but was to fade completely, no ruins being identified.
Its only historically documented bishop was Emilius, who attended the
Donatist heretics. [1]
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin
titular bishopric
of Media (Latine = Curiate Italian) / Medien(sis) (Latin adjective).
It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank with archiepiscopal exceptions :
- Antoine Hacault (1964.07.30 – 1972.10.28 see below) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Saint Boniface(Canada) (1964.07.30 – 1972.10.28)
- Titular Archbishop: Antoine Hacault (see above 1972.10.28 – 1974.09.07) as Coadjutor Archbishopof Saint-Boniface (Canada) (1972.10.28 – 1974.09.07); later succeeded as Metropolitan Archbishop of Saint-Boniface (1974.09.07 – death 2000.04.13)
- Endre Kovács, Cistercian Order (O. Cist.) (1975.01.07 – death 2007.07.29) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Eger(Hungary) (1975.01.07 – retired 2003.01.15) and as emeritate
- Petro Herkulan Malchuk, Diocese of Kyïv–Žytomyr(Ukraine) (2011.06.15 – death 2016.05.27)
- Gabriel Narciso Escobar Ayala, Apostolic Vicar of Chaco Paraguayo(Paraguay) (2013.06.18 – ...).
See also
References
- ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 467; Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 222
Sources
- Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 467
- Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 222
External links
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