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Germania in Numidia is a former ancient city and Roman bishopric and current Latin Catholic titular see. It was in the Roman province of Numidia.

History

Germania was thought to have been located near modern Ksar-El-Kelb? in present-day Algeria. It was sufficiently important within the Roman province of Numidia to be a suffragan bishopric of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Cirta (modern Constantine), but faded.

Bishopric

Ancient bishops

A bishopric was established here During the Roman Empire. It stopped functioning in the 7th century with the Islamic expansion. Known bishops include

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored as a titular see in 1933. It has had the following (near-consecutive) incumbents, both of the lowest (episcopal) and intermediary (archiepiscopal) ranks:

See also

References

  1. ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, pp. 168–169.

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