Tigisis in Mauretania
Tigisis, also known as Tigisis in Mauretania to distinguish it from another Tigisis in Numidia, was an ancient Berber town (civitas) in the province of Mauretania Caesariensis. It was mentioned in the Antonine Itinerary.[1]
Tigisis is identified with ruins situated between present-day Dellys and Taourga in Algeria.
Diocese
The city was also the seat of an ancient diocese.[2][3] There are three known bishops of this diocese. The rival
, after which he was exiled.Today, Tigisis in Mauritania survives as
bishop of Łomża.[5]
Bishops
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Ancient diocese
Three bishops of the town are known to us from antiquity:
- Solemnius (fl. 411), Catholic bishop
- Paschasius (fl. 411), a rival Donatistbishop
- Passitanus (fl. 484)
Titular diocese
- Rodrigo Vicente Cisneros Durán (1 December 1967 – 4 July 1969)
- Herbé Seijas (2 July 1975 – 15 October 1975 )
- Alejandro Mestre Descals (6 March 1976 – 26 June 1988)
- Martino Canessa (20 June 1989 – 2 February 1996)
- Thomas Koorilos Chakkalapadickal (9 May 1997 – 15 January 2003)
- Tadeusz Bronakowski (11 February 2006 – present)
References
- ^ Itinerarium Antonini Augusti Itinerarium (1735).
- ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 469.
- ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 323.
- ^ Tigisi in Mauretania.
- ^ Titular Episcopal See of Tigisi in Mauretania.