Azura was an ancient civitas and bishopric in Roman North Africa It remains only as Latin Catholic titular see.

History

Azura as one of many cities of sufficient importance in the Roman(-Berber) province of Numidia to become a suffragan. The town was located near present-day Henchir-Loulou (itself a former Roman city and bishopric, Rotaria), Algeria.

Bishopric

Azura did not send a representative to the Council of Nicaea[1] nor Chalcedon[2]

As a bishopric, Azura was represented by the Catholic bishop Victor at the Conference of Carthage (411) where the Catholics declared the schismatic Donatist bishops heretics.

Its bishop Leporius was among the Catholic bishops whom the Arian king Huneric of the Vandal Kingdom summoned to Carthage in 484 and was then exiled, like most Catholics.[3][4][5][6]

Titular see

The diocese of Azura was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin Titular bishopric of Azura (Latin = Curiate Italian) / Azuen(sis) (Latin adjective).[7]

It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank:[8]

BIOS TO ELABORATE

See also

References

  1. Heinrich Gelzer Patrum Nicaenorum nomina Latine, Graece, Coptice, Syriace, Arabice, Armeniace (In aedibus B.G. Teubneri, 1995 ).
  2. Richard Price, Michael Gaddis, The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon, Volume 1 (Liverpool University Press, 2005)
  3. J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, Paris 1912, p. 401
  4. Auguste Audollent, v. "Azurensis" in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. V, 1931, col. 1380
  5. Auguste Audollent, v. Azurensis in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. V, 1931, col. 1380
  6. H. Jaubert, "Anciens évêchés et ruines chrétiennes de la Numidie et de la Sitifienne" in Recueil des Notices et Mémoires de la Société archéologique de Constantine, vol. 46, 1913, pp. 8-9
  7. Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 844
  8. Azura.
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