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Roman Empire - Mauretania Caesariensis (125 AD).

Grimidi was an ancient Roman town of the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis, located at 3.73031 35.87687 in North Africa.[1] It flourished from about 30BC to about 640AD. Numerous ruins litter the site.

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The diocese of Tamazuca (Latin: Dioecesis Tamazucensis) is a suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.[2] [3] It is presumed that the diocese of Tamazuca,[4] was centered on the ancient town Grimidi in today's Algeria.[5]

Known bishops have included:[6]

References

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  1. ^ "Gunugu: a Pleiades place resource". Pleiades: a gazetteer of past places. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
  2. ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p.468.
  3. ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p.304.
  4. ^ David Cheney, Diocese of Tamazuca, at Catholic-Hierarchy.org
  5. ^ Titular Episcopal See of Tamazuca, at GCatholic.org.
  6. ^ David Cheney, Diocese of Tamazuca, at Catholic-Hierarchy.org.