Diocese of Maxita

The Diocese of Maxita (Massita in curiate Italian) is a bishopric in Algeria. It was a Roman Catholic Church diocese in the Roman province of Africa Proconsulare.[1][2][3][4]

History
Roman North Africa

Maxita is located in the region of Al-Asnam, Algeria. It is an ancient Christian episcopal see in the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis,[5] suffragan of the Metropolitan of its capital Caesarea Mauretaniae.

It may have been centered on the unrecorded basilica discovered at Al Asnam, but was to fade.

Only one bishop is known from antiquity: Felix (Italian: Felice), who was among the Catholic prelates summoned to the Council of Carthage (484) by the Arian Vandal king Huneric.

Titular see

The diocese of Maxita (the Italian Curiate form being Massita) was nominally restored in 1933 as a titular bishopric, of the lowest (episcopal) rank.

It has had the following, near-consecutive incumbents :

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gollark: If you do not protect your data, you do not know who might have access to it eventually.
gollark: In any case, *any* government could decide to start being more authoritarian one day. Like Turkey's a few years back.
gollark: I must have been been confused.
gollark: (also, I thought you lived in the UK...?)

See also

References
  1. Stephanus Antonius Morcelli, Africa Christiana; in tres partes tributa. -Brixiae, Offic. Bettoniana 1816–1817 (Offic. Bettoniana, 1816) p42.
  2. François Sabbathier, Dictionary for the understanding of the classics, Greek and Latin authors: sacred and profane tants, containing the geography, history, fable, and antiques (Seneuze, 1780) p561.
  3. Maxita at catholic-hierarchy.
  4. Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig 1931), p. 467
  5. Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013), ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1, "Sedi titolari", pp. 819-1013
  6. Diocese of Bathurst|Bathurst Canada, at GCatholic.org.
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