Rotaria (adjective Rotariensis) was an ancient Roman and Byzantine era bishopric [1] of Numidia, North Africa.

The civitas turned predominantly Donatist (a schismatic heresy) in Churchmanship.[2] and appears to have been ethnically Roman rather than Berber.[3] It is a titular see[4][5] 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.[6]

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

Bishops

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Ivan Šaško.

See also

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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