Rotaria (diocese)

{{Short description|Ancient Roman and Byzantine era bishopric}}

Rotaria (adjective Rotariensis) was an ancient Roman and Byzantine era bishopric Christianography, of the Christian World (Robert Clavell, 1674) [https://books.google.com/books?id=MQhmAAAAcAAJ&dq=Rotariensis&pg=PA167 p167]. of Numidia, North Africa.

The civitas turned predominantly Donatist (a schismatic heresy) in Churchmanship.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) [https://books.google.com/books?id=APJVAAAAYAAJ&dq=Rotariensis&pg=PA1170 p 1170]. and appears to have been ethnically Roman rather than Berber.[http://torah-injil-jesus.e-monsite.com/pages/histoire-afn-13.html ROMANISATION ET EVANGELISATION ]. It is a titular seePius Bonifacius Gams, Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p.468.Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, pp.262-263. and the title is now held by Ivan Šaško, auxiliary bishop of Zagreb.

Rotaria has been identified with Henchir-Loulou, near Renier Algeria, but was located in the Roman province of Numidia.H. Jaubert, [http://gallica.bnf.fr /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

Nearby Azura, Numidia, also was a civitas and bishopric, and similarly now a Latin Catholic titular see.

Bishops

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  • Felix Henri Irénée Marrou, André Mandouze, Anne-Marie La Bonnardière, Prosopographie de l'Afrique chrétienne (303–533) (1982) [https://books.google.com/books?id=APJVAAAAYAAJ&dq=Rotariensis&pg=PA1170 p1280].Patrologiae cursus completus ...: Series latina, Volume 11(edited by Jacques-Paul Migne, 1845), [https://books.google.com/books?id=dHHYAAAAMAAJ&dq=Rotariensis&pg=PA329 p329].(Donatist Bishop).
  • Simplicus (411) (Donatist)
  • VictorActa conciliorum et epistolae decretales ac constitutiones summorum pontificum

(edited by Jean Hardouin, Claude Rigaud (París))[https://books.google.com/books?id=ciHWn9L9kW4C&dq=Rotariensis&pg=RA2-PA7 p7].(411) took part in the Council of Carthage (411).

  • Pavol Brezanóczy (15 September 1964 – 10 January 1969)[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d2r31.html Rotaria], at GCatholic.org.
  • Percival Caza (18 March 1969 – 26 November 1970) [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d2r31.html La sede titolare] nel sito di www.catholic-hierarchy.org
  • Vincent Madeley Harris (27 April 1971 – 15 November 1971)
  • Reinhard Lettmann (18 January 1973 – 11 January 1980)
  • Martino Scarafile (20 December 1980 – 31 October 1985)
  • Agustín Otero Largacha (3 May 1986 – 9 May 2004)
  • Gonzalo de Villa y Vásquez (9 July 2004 – 28 July 2007)
  • Ivan Šaško (11 February 2008 – present)

See also

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