Ruspe
Ruspe or Ruspae was a town in the
Name
The name "Ruspe" is usually understood to be a hellenization of a Phoenician name including the element "rush" (Punic: 𐤓𐤔, RŠ), meaning "head" or "headland".[2]
The
Geography
According to the Tabula Peutingeriana, Ruspe was situated between Acholla and Usilla. It was near the promontory that Ptolemy called Brachodes, the Romans' Caput Vadorum, later known as Capaudia or—in Arabic—Qaboudia[7][10][11] (cf. Chebba).
Ruspe was commonly
Religion
The city was important enough in the
Bishops of Ruspe earlier than Saint Fulgentius (Italian:
- Secundus, who was at the Conference of Carthage (411) that brought together Catholic and Donatistbishops – Morcelli assigns him instead to an otherwise unknown diocese of Ruspina –
- Stephanus, one of the Catholic bishops whom the Carthage in 484 and then exiled.
The immediate successor of Fulgentius was
- Iulianus attended the
Titular see
No longer a residential bishopric, Ruspae (the spelling used in the Annuario Pontificio) is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.[9][17][18]
The bishops who have held this title are:
- Vincenzo de Via (1757.12.19 – 1762.01.31)
- Manuel Obellar, O.P. (1778.01.29 – 1789.09.07)
- Grgo Ilijić, O.F.M.(1796.09.30 – 1799.06.01)
- Edward Bede Slater, O.S.B.(1818.06.18 – 1832.07.15)
- Romualdo Jimeno Ballesteros, O.P. (1839.08.02 – 1846.01.19)
- O.F.M. Cap.(1884.08.08 – 1891.08.10)
- Spiridion Poloméni (1892.02.27 – 1930.09.12)
- Joseph Louis Aldée Desmarais (1931.01.30 – 1939.06.22)
- 臺北 (Taiwan) (1959.12.16 – 1966.02.15)
- Joseph Carroll McCormick (1947.01.11 – 1960.06.25)
- David Monas Maloney (1960.11.05 – 1967.12.02)
- Horacio Arturo Gómez Dávila (1968.07.03 – 1974.09.15)
- Enzo Ceccarelli Catraro, S.D.B.(1974.10.05 – 1998.11.15)
- Vlado Košić (1998.12.29 – 2009.12.05)
- Rafael Biernaski (2010.02.10 – 2015.06.24)
- Nuno Manuel dos Santos Almeida (21.11.2015) incumbent.
References
- OCLC 6478604.
- ^ a b c d e J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912), pp. 140–141
- ^ Image of section of the Tabula Peutingeriana with Ruspe
- ^ Henricus de Noris in Migne's Supplement to the Works of Augustine, Patrologia Latina, vol. 47, col. 297B
- ^ Book IV, Chapter 3
- ^ Alexander MacBean, Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of Ancient Geography (G. Robinson, 1773)
- ^ a b William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854)
- ^ a b Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), pp. 265–266
- ^ ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 961
- ^ a b c d e G. Ch. Picard, "Ruspe" in Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica (Treccani 1965)
- ^ Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 5 (Baudry's European Library, 1840), chapter 41, footnote 15
- ^ a b c Sophrone Pétridès, "Ruspe" in Catholic Encyclopedia (New York 1912)
- ^ The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1976)
- ^ Henchir Bou Tria: Tunisia
- ^ Rass Bou Tria
- ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 468.
- ^ La sede titolare nel sito di www.catholic-hierarchy.org
- ^ La sede titolare nel sito di www.gcatholic.org
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