Rotaria (diocese)

Rotaria (adjective Rotariensis) was an ancient Roman and Byzantine era bishopric [1] of Numidia, North Africa.

The civitas turned predominantly Donatist (a schismatic heresy) in Churchmanship.[2] and appears to have been ethnically Roman rather than Berber.[3] It is a titular see[4][5] and the title is now held by Ivan Šaško, auxiliary bishop of Zagreb.

Rotaria has been identified with Henchir-Loulou, near Renier Algeria, but was located in the Roman province of Numidia.[6]

Nearby Azura, Numidia, also was a civitas and bishopric, and similarly now a Latin Catholic titular see.

Bishops
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Ivan Šaško.
  • Pavol Brezanóczy (15 September 1964 – 10 January 1969)[10]
  • Percival Caza (18 March 1969 – 26 November 1970) [11]
  • Vincent Madeley Harris (27 April 1971 – 15 November 1971)
  • Reinhard Lettmann (18 January 1973 – 11 January 1980)
  • Martino Scarafile (20 December 1980 – 31 October 1985)
  • Agustín Otero Largacha (3 May 1986 – 9 May 2004)
  • Gonzalo de Villa y Vásquez (9 July 2004 – 28 July 2007)
  • Ivan Šaško (11 February 2008 – present)

See also

References
  1. Christianography, of the Christian World (Robert Clavell, 1674) p167.
  2. Henri Irénée Marrou, André Mandouze, Anne-Marie La Bonnardière, Prosopographie de l'Afrique chrétienne (303–533) (Éditions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1 Jan. 1982) p 1170.
  3. ROMANISATION ET EVANGELISATION .
  4. Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p.468.
  5. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, pp.262-263.
  6. H. Jaubert, /ark:/12148/bpt6k5457275x/f96.image "Évêchés Anciens et ruines chrétiennes de la Numidie et de la Sitifienne" in Reports of Notices et Memoires de la Société archéologique de Constantine, vol.46, 1913, p.72
  7. Henri Irénée Marrou, André Mandouze, Anne-Marie La Bonnardière, Prosopographie de l'Afrique chrétienne (303–533) (1982) p1280.
  8. Patrologiae cursus completus ...: Series latina, Volume 11(edited by Jacques-Paul Migne, 1845), p329.
  9. Acta conciliorum et epistolae decretales ac constitutiones summorum pontificum (edited by Jean Hardouin, Claude Rigaud (París))p7.
  10. Rotaria, at GCatholic.org.
  11. La sede titolare nel sito di www.catholic-hierarchy.org
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