Roman Empire - Mauretania Caesariensis (125 AD)

Capra was an ancient

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town in the

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Mauretania Caesariensis Mauretania Caesariensis (Latin for " Caesarean Mauretania") was a Roman province located in what is now Algeria in the Maghreb. The full name refers to its capital Caesarea Mauretaniae (modern Cherchell). The province had been part of the Ki ...

. The

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was located in the present-day area of Béni Mansour and

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. It was a

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in the

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Ecclesiastical history

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speaks of ''Capra Picta'' as a town in that province, where some Catholics sent there into exile under the

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Genseric Gaiseric ( – 25 January 477), also known as Geiseric or Genseric ( la, Gaisericus, Geisericus; reconstructed Vandalic: ) was King of the Vandals and Alans (428–477), ruling a kingdom he established, and was one of the key players in the di ...

, king of the

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from 428 to 477, converted a great number of the local population to Christianity.Stefano Antonio Morcelli
''Africa christiana''
Volume I, Brescia 1816, pp. 117–118 In the '' Notitia Provinciarum et Civitatum Africae'', Primus, bishop of the church in Capra, appears in the list of the Catholic bishops whom

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summoned to Carthage in 484 and then exiled.

Titular see

No longer a residential bishopric, Capra is today listed by the

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as a

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2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ), p. 858 The ancient

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was nominally restored in 1933 and since had the following incumbents, both of the lowest (episcopal) or intermediary (archiepiscopal) ranks : * Titular bishop Alain Sauveur Ferdinand van Gaver,

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M.E.P. (1965.03.22 – 1965.12.18) * Titular archbishop Joseph Floribert Cornelis,

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(O.S.B.) (1967.04.13 – 1974.11.13) * Titular bishop Hieronymus Herculanus Bumbun,

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(O.F.M. Cap.) (1975.12.19 – 1977.02.26) (later Archbishop) * Titular bishop Anatole Milandou (1983.07.22 – 1987.10.03) (later Archbishop) * Titular bishop Camillus Archibong Etokudoh (1988.01.18 – 1989.09.01) * Titular bishop Joseph Shipandeni Shikongo,

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(O.M.I.) (1994.03.14 – ...), Apostolic Vicar of

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(Namibia)

References

Sources and external links

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