Ksar Sbahi

Ksar Sbahi
Commune and town

Landscape of the Hautes Plaines in the winter
Country  Algeria
Province Oum El Bouaghi Province
Population (1998)
  Total 11,095
Time zone CET (UTC+1)

Ksar Sbahi is a town and commune in Oum El Bouaghi Province, Algeria and the site of Ancient Gadiaufala, a Roman city and former bishopric, now a Latin Catholic titular see.

According to the 1998 census it has a population of 11,095.[1]

History

Gadiaufala was important enough in the Roman province of Numidia to become a suffragan bishopric of its capital's Metropolitan Archbishop of ?Cirta, but later faded.

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored as a titular bishopric in 1933. It has had the following incumbents, all of the lowest (episcopal) rank :

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Coordinates: 36°05′N 7°15′E / 36.083°N 7.250°E / 36.083; 7.250

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