Rotaria (Diocese)

Rotaria or Rotariensis was an ancient Roman and Byzantine era bishopric [1] of Numidia, North Africa. It was predominantly Donatist in Churchmanship.[2] and appears to have been ethnically Roman rather than Berber.[3] It remains today a titular See.[4][5] and the current Bishop is the current bishop is Ivan Šaško, of Zagreb.

Rotaria, has been identified with Henchir-Loulou, near Renier Algeria, but was in the Roman province of Numidia.[6]

Bishops

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Ivan Šaško.

References

  1. ↑ Christianography, of the Christian World (Robert Clavell, 1674) p167.
  2. ↑ Henri Irénée Marrou, André Mandouze, Anne-Marie La Bonnardière, Prosopographie de l'Afrique chrétienne (303-533) (Éditions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1 Jan. 1982) p 1170.
  3. ↑ ROMANISATION ET EVANGELISATION .
  4. ↑ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae , Leipzig 1931, p.468.
  5. ↑ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana , Volume I, Brescia 1816, pp.262-263.
  6. ↑ H. Jaubert, /ark:/12148/bpt6k5457275x/f96.image Évêchés Anciens et ruines chrétiennes de la Numidie et de la Sitifienne in Reports of Notices et Memoires de la Société archéologique de Constantine , vol.46, 1913, p.72
  7. ↑ Henri Irénée Marrou, André Mandouze, Anne-Marie La Bonnardière, Prosopographie de l'Afrique chrétienne (303-533) (1982) p1280.
  8. ↑ Patrologiae cursus completus ...: Series latina, Volume 11(edited by Jacques-Paul Migne, 1845), p329.
  9. ↑ Acta conciliorum et epistolae decretales ac constitutiones summorum pontificum (edited by Jean Hardouin, Claude Rigaud (París))p7.
  10. ↑ Rotaria, at GCatholic.org.
  11. ↑ La sede titolare nel sito di www.catholic-hierarchy.org
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