Diocese of Maxita

The Diocese of Maxita (Massita in curiate Italian) (Maxitensis) is a suppressed residential and present Latin titular see of the Roman Catholic Church of Roman North Africa.[1][2][3][4]

History

Maxita, located in the region of Al-Asnam, Algeria, is an ancient episcopal see in the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis,[5] suffragan of the Metropolitan of its capital Caesarea Mauretaniae.

It may have been centered on the unrecorded Basilica discovered at Al Asnam, but was to fade.

Only one bishop is known from antiquity: Felix (Italian: Felice), who was among the Catholic prelates summoned to the Synod of Carthage (484AD) by the Arian Vandal king Huneric.

Titular see

The diocese of Maxita (the Italian Curiate form being Massita) was nominally restored in 1933 as a titular bishopric, of the lowest (episcopal) rank.

It has had the following, near-consecutive incumbents :

References

  1. Stephanus Antonius Morcelli, Africa Christiana; in tres partes tributa. -Brixiae, Offic. Bettoniana 1816-1817 (Offic. Bettoniana, 1816) p42.
  2. François Sabbathier, Dictionary for the understanding of the classics, Greek and Latin authors: sacred and profane tants, containing the geography, history, fable, and antiques (Seneuze, 1780) p561.
  3. Maxita at Catholic heirachy.
  4. Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig 1931), p. 467
  5. Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013), ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), "Sedi titolari", pp. 819-1013
  6. Diocese of Bathurst|Bathurst Canada] at GCatholic.org.

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