Nicives
Nicives, identifiable with N'Gaous in Batna Province, Algeria, was an ancient Roman town of the Roman province of Numidia.[1]
History
The town was the
There are three bishops known from Niceives.- At the Donatists, debate, the town was represented by the Catholic Justus episcopus Nicibensis, who did not have Donatist counterpart.
- Among the Catholic bishops Vandal was Paulus Nibensis, which according to Mesnage is to be read as Nicibensis.[4]
- Finally a Donatists.
The town lasted as a legal entity, through the
Byzantine period, till the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb
in the 7th century.
Today Nicives survives as a
Roman Catholic Church and the current bishop is Andrzej Jerzy Zglejszewski, auxiliary bishop of Rockville.[5]
Bishops
- Justus (mentioned in 411)
- Paul † (mentioned in 484)
- Colombo † (before 581 – after 602)
- Angelo Félix Mugnol (1966–1969)
- Guillermo Escobar Vélez (1969–1971)
- Abel Alonso Núñez (1971–1976)
- Stanley Joseph Ott(1976–1983)
- José Mário Stroeher (1983–1986) Rio Grande
- William Jerome McCormack (1986–2013)
- Andrzej Jerzy Zglejszewski, from February 11, 2014
See also
References
- ^ "Titular See of Nicives, Algeria". GCatholic. Retrieved 2023-12-01.
- ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 467
- ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 243.
- ^ J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912) p. 343.
- ^ La sede titolare at www.catholic-hierarchy.org.