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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- Felix [7][8](Donatist Bishop).
- Simplicus (411) (Donatist)
- Victor[9](411) took part in the Council of Carthage (411).
- Pavol Brezanóczy (15 September 1964 – 10 January 1969)[10]
- Percival Caza (18 March 1969 – 26 November 1970) [11]
- Vincent Madeley Harris (27 April 1971 – 15 November 1971)
- Reinhard Lettmann (18 January 1973 – 11 January 1980)
- Martino Scarafile (20 December 1980 – 31 October 1985)
- Agustín Otero Largacha (3 May 1986 – 9 May 2004)
- Gonzalo de Villa y Vásquez (9 July 2004 – 28 July 2007)
- Ivan Šaško (11 February 2008 – present)
See also
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edit- ^ Christianography, of the Christian World (Robert Clavell, 1674) p167.
- ^ 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.
- ^ ROMANISATION ET EVANGELISATION .
- ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p.468.
- ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, pp.262-263.
- ^ 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
- ^ Henri Irénée Marrou, André Mandouze, Anne-Marie La Bonnardière, Prosopographie de l'Afrique chrétienne (303–533) (1982) p1280.
- ^ Patrologiae cursus completus ...: Series latina, Volume 11(edited by Jacques-Paul Migne, 1845), p329.
- ^ Acta conciliorum et epistolae decretales ac constitutiones summorum pontificum (edited by Jean Hardouin, Claude Rigaud (París))p7.
- ^ Rotaria, at GCatholic.org.
- ^ La sede titolare nel sito di www.catholic-hierarchy.org