Rotaria (Diocese)

Rotaria or Rotariensis was an ancient Roman and Byzantine era bishopric [1] of Numidia, North Africa. It was predominantly Donatist in Churchmanship.[2] and appears to have been ethnically Roman rather than Berber.[3] It remains today a titular See.[4][5] and the current Bishop is the current bishop is Ivan Šaško, of Zagreb.

Rotaria, has been identified with Henchir-Loulou, near Renier Algeria, but was in the Roman province of Numidia.[6]

Bishops

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Ivan Šaško.

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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