Equizetum Explained
Equizetum is a former city and bishopric in Roman North Africa which only remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
Its presumed location is Ouled-Agla (colonial French name Lacourbe) in present Algeria.
History
It was among the cities of sufficient importance in the Roman province of Mauretania Sitifensis (in the papal sway) to become a suffragan diocese, but was to fade, plausibly at the seventh century advent of Islam.
Two of its bishops are historically documented:
- The schismatic Donatist Victor attended the Council of Carthage in 411, where the prevailing Catholic bishops declared his sect heretical.
- Pacatus, participant in the Council of Carthage called in 484 by Arian king Huneric of the Vandal Kingdom, after which ha was exiled like most catholic bishops.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin titular bishopric of Equizetum (Latin) / Equizeto (Curiate Italian) / Equizeten(sis) (Latin adjective).
It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank:
See also
Sources and external links
- Bibliography
- Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 465
- Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, pp. 155–156
- 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. 116–117
