Cediae (''Cediæ'') was an ancient city and former
bishopric
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History
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in
Roman North Africa
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. It is now a
Latin Catholic
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titular see
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.
History
The city of Cediæ was situated in modern Oum-Kif, in present
Algeria
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. It was important enough in the
Roman province
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of
Numidia (in the papal sway) to become one its many
suffragan sees, but like most faded completely, plausibly at the seventh century advent of Islam.
The first record of the diocese, from 256, mentions bishop Secondinus, partaking in the
council called at Carthage in 256 by Saint
Cyprianus
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on '
lapsed Christians', who accept forced
idolatry to avoid martyrdom; he died a
martyr
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himself at
Cirta
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Cirta was the capital city of the Berber kingdom of Numidia; its strategically important port city ...
in 259, mentioned in the ''Vetus Martyrologium Romanum'' under 29 April. Francesco Lanzoni believes him identical to the saint Secondinus venerated throughout southern Italy.
[Francesco Lanzoni, ''Le diocesi d'Italia dalle origini al principio del secolo VII'' (an. 604), vol. I, Faenza 1927, pp. 178–1179.]
Later Cediae adhered to the heresy
Donatism
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, like its bishop Fortis, participant at the
council called in Carthage in 484 by king
Huneric
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of the
Vandal Kingdom, where it had no Catholic counterpart, and probably exiled afterward like most Catholic bishops.
The last recorded bishop, Secundus, may still have been Donatist.
Archeological digs found remnants of a
basilica
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, probably from the Donatist period, and numerous sarcophagi, one of which is inscribed with a dedication of the church to bishop Secundus.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin Catholic
titular bishopric
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of Cediæ (Latin) / Cedie (Curiate Italian) / (Latin adjective).
It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank:
* Nicolas Stam,
Mill Hill Missionaries
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(M.H.M.) (born
Netherlands
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) (1936.03.09 – death 1949.05.26) as
Apostolic Vicar
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of
Kisumu
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Apart from being an important polit ...
(
Kenya
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) (1936.03.09 – retired 1946) and on emeritate
* Ladislao Hlad (1950.02.09 – death 1979.12.16) (born
Czechoslovakia
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) without prelature
* Carlos Walter Galán Barry (1981.02.11 – 1991.05.08) as
Auxiliary Bishop of
Diocese of Morón (
Argentina
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) (1981.02.11 – 1991.05.08), later Metropolitan Archbishop of
La Plata (Argentina) (1991.05.08 – retired 2000.06.12); died 2003
* Mario Eusebio Mestril Vega (1991.11.16 – 1996.02.02) as Auxiliary Bishop of
Diocese of Camagüey (
Cuba
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) (1991.11.16 – 1996.02.02), later first Bishop of its daughter
Ciego de Ávila (Cuba) (1996.02.02 – ...)
* Fidel Herráez Vegas (1996.05.14 – 2015.10.30) as Auxiliary Bishop of
Archdiocese of Madrid (
Spain
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) (1996.05.14 – 2015.10.30), later Metropolitan Archbishop of
Burgos
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(Spain) (2015.10.30 – ...)
* Wojciech Tomasz Osial (2015.12.24 – ...), Auxiliary Bishop of
Diocese of Łowicz (
Poland
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) (2015.12.24 – ...), no previous prelature.
See also
*
List of Catholic dioceses in Algeria
Current dioceses
All Roman Rite
;''Ecclesiastical province of Alger''
* Metropolitan Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Alger; united with the titular see of Iulia Caesarea (Ancient bishopric at Alger)
** suffragan Roman Catholic Diocese of Consta ...
References
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Sources and external links
GCatholic (titular) see - data for all sections; Bibliography
* Pius Bonifacius Gams, ''Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae'', Leipzig, 1931, p. 465
* Stefano Antonio Morcelli, ''Africa christiana'', Volume I, Brescia 1816, pp. 132–133
* Joseph Mesnage, ''L'Afrique chrétienne'', Paris, 1912, pp. 346–347
* J. Ferron, lemma 'Cedias' in ''Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques'', vol. XII, Paris, 1953, coll. 43-44
* H. Jaubert, ''Anciens évêchés et ruines chrétiennes de la Numidie et de la Sitifienne'', in ''Recueil des Notices et Mémoires de la Société archéologique de Constantine'', vol. 46, 1913, pp. 29–30
Catholic titular sees in Africa
Suppressed Roman Catholic dioceses