Macomades
{{hatnote|Not to be confused with Macomades Minores in present-day Tunisia or Macomades Rusticana, a titular see.}}
Macomades was a Carthaginian and Roman city in North Africa. It was located near present-day Oum-El-Bouaghi, Algeria
History
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Macomades was established as an inland Punic trading post under the name {{sc|mqmʾ}} ({{langx|xpu|𐤌𐤒𐤌𐤀}},{{sfnp|Head & al.|1911|p=886}} "Place"). It was about {{convert|40|mi|order=flip|sp=us|0}} from Cirta.{{sfnp|Head & al.|1911|p=886}} It issued its own bronze coins with an Egyptian-style god's head obverse and a reverse bearing either a hog and galloping horse or a disk in a crescent, a symbol of the Punic goddess Tanit.{{sfnp|Head & al.|1911|p=886}}
It was a town in the Roman province of Numidia.
It was overrun by the Umayyad Caliphate during the 7th-century Muslim invasion.
Religion
No later than AD{{nbsp}}256, the town was the seat of a Christian bishop. The diocese was in abeyance after the Muslim conquest of the region until it was restored by the Roman Catholic Church in 1933 as a titular bishopric ({{lang|la|diocesis Macomadensis}}).[http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t1048.htm 1].
=List of bishops =
{{incomplete list|date=November 2018}}
- Cassius, at the council of Carthage called in 256 by Saint Cyprianus to discuss the 'lapsed' Christians who preferred forced idolatry to martyrdom
- Donatus, mentioned after 406, praised by Saint Augustine of Hippo in Contra Cresconium for abjuring the heresy Donatism
- Aurelius participated in the 411 council of Carthage (where both Catholic and heretical bishops were invited) as well as his Donatist counterpart from Macomades, Sallustius
- Pardalius was exiled after participating in the 484 synod of Carthage, called by the Vandal king Huneric, an Arian; in 487 he parttook, probably as Numidian delegate, in Pope Felix III's Lateran Council.
- Florentino Armas Lerena (8 April 1967{{nbsp}}{{ndash}} 25 November 1979), while first Bishop-Prelate of Territorial Prelature of Chota and still on emeritate
- Ricardo Watty Urquidi (27 May 1980{{nbsp}}{{ndash}} 6 November 1989), as Auxiliary Bishop of Mexico City, later Bishop of Nuevo Laredo, Bishop of Tepic
- Francisco Clavel Gil (from 27 June 2001), emeritus as former Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Mexico City
See also
References
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=Bibliography=
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- {{citation |last=Head |first=Barclay |editor=Ed Snible |author2=G.F. Hill |author3=George MacDonald |author4=W. Wroth |display-authors=1 |display-editors=0 |url=http://snible.org/coins/hn/index.html |title=Historia Numorum |contribution=Numidia|contribution-url=http://snible.org/coins/hn/numidia.html |pages=884–887 |date=1911 |edition=2nd |location=Oxford |publisher=Clarendon Press |ref={{harvid|Head & al.|1911}} }}.
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