Garba (see)

The diocese of Garba (Latin: Dioecesis Garbensis) is a suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.[1]

History

East Numidia.

During the Vandal Kingdom and the Roman Empire, Garba, was a civitas of the Roman province of Numidia, that is identifiable with the ruins at Aïn-Garb in today's Algeria.[2] The town of Garba was also the seat of an ancient Christian episcopal seat.[3]

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There are three Bishops of Garba known to history.

• Bishop Vittore the Donatist took part in the Council of Cirta in 305;
• At the Conference of Carthage of 411 between the Catholic and Donatist the town was represented by the Donatist Felice, who had no Catholic counterpart.
• Another Felice, this time a Catholic participated in the synod assembled in Carthage in 484 by the Vandal King Huneric, Felice was then exiled at the end of the council.

Today Garba survives only as a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church and the current bishop is Mark S. Edwards, auxiliary bishop of Melbourne.[5]

References

1. Garba, at www.catholic-hierarchy.org.
2. Garba, at www.gcatholic.org.
3. Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 465.
4. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 165.
5. Garba, at www.catholic-hierarchy.org.