Quiza ( grc, Κούϊζα) also known as Vuiza (Βούϊζα), which

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called Quiza Xenitana,This is sometimes mistakenly written ''Quiza Cenitana'' was a

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– Berber colonia, located in the former

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of Mauretania Caesariensis. The town is identified with ruins at Sidi Bellater, Algiers.

History

Quiza was originally a small Berber village, with Phoenician roots. It grew under the Roman empire. Around 120 AD, the emperor Hadrian erected an arch in the city. William Smith identified Quiza with Giza near

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in his work, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. More recent investigations have identified it with present-day El-Benian on the coast road between Mostaga and Dara. In his ''Natural History'', 4.2.3., Pliny the Elder: writes: "Next to this is Quiza Xenitana, a town founded by strangers"; a remark explained because the word ''Xenitana'' is derived from

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ξένος, "a stranger", as explained also by

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. The town is mentioned also by

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elsewhere (5.2), by

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, and by

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Bishopric

Quiza is also a

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of Christianity. Quaestoriana was in the ecclesiastical province of

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. At the

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, which brought together

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and

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bishops, Quiza was represented by the

Priscus, who had no Donatist counterpart. He is mentioned also in a letter of

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. Tiberianus of Quiza was one of the Catholic bishops whom the Arian

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king

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summoned to Carthage in 484 and then exiled. In addition, the name of a Bishop Vitalianus appears in the mosaic pavement of the excavated basilica of Quiza. Bishops No longer a residential

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, Quiza is today listed by the

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as a

*Priscus fl 411. * Tiberianus of Quiza fl 484 * Vitalianus * Adrien André Maria Cimichella, O.S.M. † (5 Jun 1964 Appointed – 21 Jul 2004 Died) * José Guadalupe Torres Campos (10 Dec 2005 Appointed – 25 Nov 2008 Appointed, Bishop of Gómez Palacio, Durango) * Cirilo B. Flores † (5 Jan 2009 Appointed – 4 Jan 2012 Appointed, Coadjutor Bishop of San Diego,

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) * Linas (Genadijus) Vodopjanovas, O.F.M. (11 Feb 2012 Appointed – 20 May 2016 Appointed, Bishop of Panevėžys) *

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(24 Jun 2016 Appointed - 7 Oct 2019 Appointed, Bishop of Broken Bay) *

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(25 Mar 2020 Appointed)

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References

Bibliography

* Laffi, Umberto. ''Colonie e municipi nello Stato romano'' Ed. di Storia e Letteratura. Roma, 2007 * Mommsen, Theodore. ''The Provinces of the Roman Empire'' Section: Roman Africa. (Leipzig 1865; London 1866; London: Macmillan 1909; reprint New York 1996) Barnes & Noble. New York, 1996 {{Romano-Berber cities in Roman Africa, state=collapsed Archaeological sites in Algeria Roman towns and cities in Algeria Former populated places in Algeria Ancient Berber cities Coloniae (Roman) Catholic titular sees in Africa

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