Augurus was an ancient city and former
bishopric
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History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associate ...
in
Roman Africa
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, now a
Latin Catholic
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titular see
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. Its presumed site is at the ruins of Sidi-Tahar and Sidi-Embarec in
Algeria
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.
History
Augurus was important enough in the
Roman province
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of
Numidia
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to become one of its many
suffragan
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In the Catholic Church, a suffragan bishop leads a diocese within an ecclesiastical province other than the principal diocese, the metropolitan archdiocese; the diocese led ...
sees, and faded like most.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin
titular bishopric
A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular metropolitan" (highest rank), "titular archbish ...
.
It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting episcopal (lowest) rank :
* Michel-Maurice-Augustin-Marie Darmancier,
Marists (S.M.) (1961.12.22 – 1966.06.21)
* Victor-Julien-André Gouet (1966.12.30 – 1988.12.15)
* Gilles Lussier (1988.12.23 – 1991.09.07)
* Simon Akwali Okafor (1992.03.06 – 1994.09.09)
* Edwin Michael Conway (1995.01.24 – 2004.08.09)
* João Carlos Petrini (2005.01.12 – 2010.12.15)
* José Francisco Falcão de Barros (2011.02.16 – ...),
Auxiliary Bishop
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...
of the
Military Ordinariate of Brazil (Brazil)
See also
*
Catholic Church in Algeria
The Catholic Church in Algeria is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the pope in Rome. Prior to independence, the European Catholic settlers had historic legacy and powerful presence, but today Catholics co ...
References
External links
GCatholic with incumbent bio links
Catholic titular sees in Africa
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