Centuria (Numidia) Explained

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)

Notes and References

1. 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.
2. Jean-Marie Lassère Onomastica africana V–VIII, Vol 18 Antiquités africaines 1982, 1 (pp. 167-175.
3. Michael Greenhalgh, The Military and Colonial Destruction of the Roman Landscape of North Africa, 1830-1900 (BRILL, 8 May 2014)
4. Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 140, Number 12,399.
5. Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 4, Page 145.
6. Episcopologio Español, Volume 1500, Page 143, Number 910.
7. Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1622, Number 59.
8. https://books.google.com/books?id=r5CJ18TSGSMC&q=Bishop+of+Centuria Encyclical Letter of the Bishops of Rama, Acanthos, and Centuria, 1791
9. Web site: CatholicSaints.Info » Bishop of Centuria. catholicsaints.info. en-US. 2018-02-01.
10. http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t0468.htm Titular Episcopal See of Centuria