Rusubbicari was a

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n and Carthaginian

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and

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town. It has been tentatively identified with ruins at

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El Bahri,

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. The Roman town was in the

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of Mauretania Caesariensis.

Name

The present name is a masculine plural noun, suggesting it may have originally consisted of two or three separate settlements. It seems to a latinization of a Phoenician name including the element ''rush'' ( xpu, 𐤓‬𐤀𐤔‬, , "

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") and a local Berber placename.

Religion

Rusubbicari was a Christian

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in late antiquity and is a

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( la, Dioecesis Rusubbicarensis).

List of bishops

* At the 411 Carthage conference between Catholic baptists and Donatists of

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, the town was represented by the Donatist Costanzo as the diocese on that occasion had no Catholic bishops. *Paolino participated in the synod assembled in Carthage in 484 by the

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King

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, after which Paolino was exiled. * José da Silva Chaves (November 29, 1967 – May 14, 1976 appointed bishop of Uruaç) * Victor León Esteban San Miguel y Erce (May 31, 1976 – April 4, 1995 deceased) *

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(14 April 2000 – 17 July 2006 appointed Archbishop of

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) *

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(July 16, 2008 – May 31, 2013 appointed bishop of San Francisco) * Jose Puthenveettil, since August 23, 2013 Today Rusubbicari survives as a

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ric holder; The current bishop is Jose Puthenveettil, auxiliary bishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly.Rusubbicarensis
at Catholic-hierarchy.org.

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