Augurus was an ancient city and former
bishopric
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History
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in
Roman Africa
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; in the unified Roman empire :
* Africa (Roman province), with the great metropolis Cart ...
, 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
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 ...
to become one of its many
suffragan
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In the Anglican Communion, a suffragan bishop is a bishop who is subordinate to a metropolitan bishop or diocesan bishop (bishop ordinary) and so is not normally jurisdiction ...
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 archbis ...
.
It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting episcopal (lowest) rank :
* Michel-Maurice-Augustin-Marie Darmancier,
Marists
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(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 of the
Military Ordinariate of Brazil
The Military Ordinariate of Brazil ( pt, Ordinariado Militar do Brasil) is a Latin Church military ordinariate of the Catholic Church. Immediately exempt to the Holy See, it provides pastoral care to Catholics serving in the Brazilian Armed F ...
(Brazil)
See also
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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, Algeria was home to a million Catholic settlers (10%). Some Moroccans of Berber (mostly Kabyle ...
References
External links
GCatholic with incumbent bio links
Catholic titular sees in Africa
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