Ksar Sbahi is a town and commune in Oum El Bouaghi Province,

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and the site of Ancient Gadiaufala, a Roman city and former bishopric, now a Latin Catholic

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. According to the 1998 census it has a population of 11,095.Statoids
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History

Gadiaufala was important enough in the

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to become a

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bishopric of its capital's Metropolitan Archbishop of ? Cirta, but later faded.

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored as a

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in 1933. It has had the following incumbents, all of the lowest (episcopal) rank : * Luciano José Cabral Duarte (1966.07.14 – 1971.02.12), as

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of Aracaju (Brazil) (1966.07.14 – 1971.02.12); later succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Aracaju (1971.02.12 – 1998.08.26), First Vice-President of Latin American Episcopal Council (1979 – 1983) * Rodolfo Quezada Toruño (1972.04.05 – 1975.09.11), as

of Zacapa (Guatemala) (1972.04.05 – 1975.09.11), promoted Coadjutor Bishop of Zacapa (1975.09.11 – 1980.02.16), succeeding as Bishop of Zacapa (1980.02.16 – 2001.06.19), also Bishop-Prelate of Santo Cristo de Esquipulas (Guatemala) (1986.06.24 – 2001.06.19), President of Episcopal Conference of Guatemala (1988 – 1992), later Metropolitan Archbishop of

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(Guatemala) (2001.06.19 – 2010.10.02), President of Episcopal Conference of Guatemala (2002 – 2006), created

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of S. Saturnino (2003.10.21 004.03.13– 2012.06.04) * Jesús Arturo Roldán (1980.05.26 – 1991.11.09) * Elmo Noel Joseph Perera (1992.12.17 – 1995.06.01) * Antonio Federico Gatti (1996.07.01 – 1998.07.09) * Dieudonné Bogmis (1999.02.09 – 2004.10.15) * François Xavier Lê Văn Hồng (2005.02.19 – 2012.08.18), as Auxiliary Bishop of Huê (Vietnam) (2005.02.19 – 2012.08.18), next Metropolitan Archbishop of Huê (Vietnam) (2012.08.18 – ...), also Vice-President of Episcopal Conference of Vietnam (2013 – ...) * Joseph Đinh Đức Đạo (2013.02.28 – 2015.06.04) * Bishop-elect Natale Paganelli, Xaverians (S.X.) (2015.07.18 – ...),

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of Makeni (Sierra Leone)

References

Source and External links

GigaCatholic, with incumbent biography links
Communes of Oum El Bouaghi Province {{OumElBouaghi-geo-stub