Caesariana (Cæsariana) was an Ancient city and

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Roman North Africa Africa Proconsularis was a Roman province on the northern African coast that was established in 146 BC following the defeat of Carthage in the Third Punic War. It roughly comprised the territory of present-day Tunisia, the northeast of Algeria, ...

. It is now only a

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History

It was one of over 120 cities in the

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Numidia Numidia ( Berber: ''Inumiden''; 202–40 BC) was the ancient kingdom of the Numidians located in northwest Africa, initially comprising the territory that now makes up modern-day Algeria, but later expanding across what is today known as Tuni ...

that were important enough to become a

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of the metropolitan of

Carthage Carthage was the capital city of Ancient Carthage, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia. Carthage was one of the most important trading hubs of the Ancient Mediterranean and one of the most affluent cities of the clas ...

, but would fade away, plausibly at the seventh century advent of Islam. Its ruins are at Kessaria (obviously still named after Caesariana) in modern

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. Its only historically documented incumbent was not Catholic but the schismatic

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Cresconius, who attended the Council of Carthage of 411, where his heresy was condemned as such. Morcelli however attributes him (probably erroneously) to

Caesarea in Numidia Caesarea in Mauretania (Latin: ''Caesarea Mauretaniae'', meaning "Caesarea of Mauretania") was a Roman colony in Roman-Berber North Africa. It was the capital of Mauretania Caesariensis and is now called Cherchell, in modern Algeria. In the pre ...

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin

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of Cæsariana (Latin; Curiate Italian Cesariana). It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting episcopal (lowest) rank, with two archiepiscopal exceptions: * Fulton John Sheen (1951.05.28 – 1966.10.21) as Auxiliary Bishop of

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(NY, USA) (1951.05.28 – 1966.10.21); later Bishop of

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(USA) (1966.10.21 – 1969.10.06), emeritate as

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(1969.10.06 – death 1979.12.09) * ''Titular Archbishop'' Angelo Felici (1967.07.22 – 1988.06.28) as papal diplomat and high Roman Curia official :

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(envoy) to the

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(1967.07.22 – 1976.05.13),

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(ambassador) to

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(1976.05.13 – 1979.08.27), Apostolic Nuncio to

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(1979.08.27 – 1988.06.28); previously Undersecretary of

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(1964.02.07 – 1967.07.22); later created

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(1988.06.28 – 1999.01.09), Prefect of

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(1988.07.01 – 1995.06.13), President of

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(1995.12.16 – 2000.04.14), promoted

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''pro hac vice Title'' (1999.01.09 – death 2007.06.17) * ''Titular Archbishop'' Giovanni Lajolo (1988.10.03 – 2007.11.24) as papal diplomat:

(ambassador) to

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(1995.12.07 – 2003.10.07), Secretary for Relations with States of Secretariat of State (2003.10.07 – 2006.09.15), Secretary of Interdicasterial Commission for the Church in Eastern Europe (2004.06.08 – 2006.09.15), President of Pontifical Commission for the Vatican City State (2006.09.15 – 2011.10.01), President of

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(2006.09.15 – 2011.10.01); previously Secretary of

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(1988.10.03 – 1995.12.07); later created

of S. Maria Liberatrice a Monte Testaccio (2007.11.24

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– ...) *

Yosafat Hovera Bishop Yosafat Oleh Hovera ( uk, Йосафат Олег Говера; born 12 September 1967 in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch as an Archiepiscopal Exarch of Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of ...

= Josaphat Oleh Hovera (2008.01.15 – ...), as

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(Ukraine), no previous prelature

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