Voncariana
Voncariana (in Latin: Dioecesis Voncarianensis) was an ancient Roman–Berber civitas in the province of Mauretania Caesariensis.[1] Its stone ruins are located at Boghasi in modern Algeria.[2]
Voncariana was a former was a Christian
of Voncariana is unknown.Only one
Voncariana survives as a titular bishopric. The current bishop is Victor Antonio Tamayo Betancourt, auxiliary bishop of Barranquilla.
Known bishops
- Vittore (fl.484)
- Luigi Bellotti (1964–1995)
- Óscar Aníbal Salazar Gómez (1995–1999)
- Leonard Paul Blair (1999–2003)
- Victor Antonio Tamayo Betancourt (2003–present)
References
- ^ David Cheney, Diocesi di Voncariana at Catholic-Hierarchy.org.
- ^ Titular Episcopal See of Voncariana at GCatholic.org
- ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae (Leipzig, 1931), p. 470.
- ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 360.
- ^ Auguste Audollent, v. Boncarensis in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. IX, (1937), coll. 816-817.
- ^ Patrologia Latina, vol. LVIII, coll. 174, 342 e 347.
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