Aïn El Kebira

Coordinates: 36°21′53″N 5°30′07″E / 36.36472°N 5.50194°E / 36.36472; 5.50194
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Aïn El Kebira (in

Arabic: عين الكبيرة, formerly Périgotville) is a city located 27 km north far from Sétif. As Ancient Satafis it was a bishopric, which remains a Catholic titular see
.

Ain El Kebira is a daïra (district, part of a vilayet (province), comprising several municipalities) in the Algerian regional classification.

History

The Romans of

suffragan bishopric in the Roman province of Mauretania Sitifensis
.

Inscriptions testify to Christian community cristiana since the early 4th century, including the tomb of local priest Securus.

Four historically documented bishops are attributed to this see :

It faded like most in Roman Africa, presumably at the 7th century advent of Islam.

The modern city was created in the French colonial time under the name of Périgotville.

Its present name "Ain El Kebira" means "the big fountain" in Arabic.

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as

titular bishopric
of Satafis (Latin and Curiate Italian) / Satafen(sis) in Mauretania Sitifensi (Latin adjective).

It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank :[1]

See also

References

Sources and external links

Bibliography - ecclesiastical history
  • Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 468
  • Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, pp. 270–271
  • J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, Paris 1912, p. 350

36°21′53″N 5°30′07″E / 36.36472°N 5.50194°E / 36.36472; 5.50194