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Equizetum

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Equizetum is a former city and bishopric in Roman North Africa which only remains a Latin Catholic titular see.

Its presumed location is Ouled-Agla (colonial French name Lacourbe) in present Algeria.

History

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It was among the cities of sufficient importance in the Roman province of Mauretania Sitifensis (in the papal sway) to become a suffragan diocese, but was to fade, plausibly at the seventh century advent of Islam.

Two of its bishops are historically documented:

Titular see

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The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin titular bishopric of Equizetum (Latin) / Equizeto (Curiate Italian) / Equizeten(sis) (Latin adjective).

It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank:

See also

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References

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Bibliography
  • Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 465
  • Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, pp. 155–156
  • H. Jaubert, Anciens évêchés et ruines chrétiennes de la Numidie et de la Sitifienne, in Recueil des Notices et Mémoires de la Société archéologique de Constantine, vol. 46, 1913, pp. 116–117