Centuria, also known as Centuriensis, was a Roman era town in Numidia, Roman province of Africa. It has been tentatively identified with ruins near Ain El Hadjar[1] in Algeria,[2][3] south of Saida.
Bishopric
The city was the seat of an ancient bishopric and the seat is currently vacant. Known bishops of the town include:
- Quodvultdeus (fl. 402–411) (Catholic bishop attended the Council of Milevum (402) and Council of Carthage (411)
 - Cresconio fl. 411) (rival Donatist)
 - Gennaro fl.484
 - Luis Camargo Pacheco (1622–1665)[4][5][6][7]
 - Johann Kaspar Kühner (1664–1685)
 - Andrew Giffard (1705 Appointed - Did not take office)
 - John Douglass (1790–1812)[8]
 - Myles Prendergast (1818–1844)
 - Antonio Majthényi (1840–1856)
 - St. Valentín Faustino Berrio Ochoa, (1857–1861) [9]
 - Thomas McNulty (1864–1866)
 - Bonifacio Antonio Toscano (1874–1896)
 - Giuseppe Perrachon (1925–1944)
 - Stanislao Czajka (1944–1965)
 - William Joseph Moran (1965–1996)
 - Piotr Libera (1996–2007)
 - Ferenc Cserháti (2007–2023)[10]
 - Jeffrey M. Monforton (2023-present)
 
References
- ↑ H. Jaubert, "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. 31.
 - ↑ Jean-Marie Lassère Onomastica africana V–VIII, Vol 18 Antiquités africaines 1982, 1 (pp. 167-175.
 - ↑ Michael Greenhalgh, The Military and Colonial Destruction of the Roman Landscape of North Africa, 1830-1900 (BRILL, 8 May 2014)
 - ↑ Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 140, Number 12,399.
 - ↑ Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 4, Page 145.
 - ↑ Episcopologio Español, Volume 1500, Page 143, Number 910.
 - ↑ Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1622, Number 59.
 - ↑ Encyclical Letter of the Bishops of Rama, Acanthos, and Centuria, 1791.
 - ↑ "CatholicSaints.Info » Bishop of Centuria". catholicsaints.info. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
 - ↑ Titular Episcopal See of Centuria at GCatholic.org.
 
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