Rusubbicari was a

Phoenicia Phoenicians were an Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples, ancient Semitic group of people who lived in the Phoenician city-states along a coastal strip in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily modern Lebanon and the Syria, Syrian ...

n and Carthaginian

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and Roman town. It has been tentatively identified with ruins at Zemmouri El Bahri,

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. The Roman town was in the

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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'' (, , "

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") and a local

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placename.

Religion

Rusubbicari was a

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bishopric In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associate ...

in late antiquity and is a

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().

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

Huneric Huneric, Hunneric or Honeric (died December 23, 484) was King of the (North African) Vandal Kingdom (477–484) and the oldest son of Gaiseric. He abandoned the imperial politics of his father and concentrated mainly on internal affairs. He was ma ...

, 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) * Douglas William Young (14 April 2000 – 17 July 2006 appointed Archbishop of Mount Hagen) * Sergio Osvaldo Buenanueva (July 16, 2008 – May 31, 2013 appointed bishop of San Francisco) * Jose Puthenveettil, since August 23, 2013 Today Rusubbicari survives as a

titular bishop A titular bishop in various churches is a bishop who is not in charge of a diocese. By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox an ...

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

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