Vageata Explained
Vageata, also known as Vageatensis,[1] was a Roman-Berber town in the province of Mauretania Caesariensis.[2] It is also known as Bagatensis,[3] and epigraphical evidence remains attesting to this etymology,[4] [5] [6] due to the interchange of 'v' for 'b' is a common phenomenon in Latin and Greek place names.
The city has been identified with ruins at El-Haria, located east of Cirta en route to Thibilis.[7] It was mentioned by Optatus of Milevis, in Numidia.[8]
Bishopric
The city was also a seat of an ancient bishopric though only two bishops are known to history. Donatus of Vageaensis was known from the Council of Carthage (411).[9] [10]
Fulgentius (Catholic bishop) fl.484 was exiled by Vandal king Huneric in 484AD.Richard Oliver Gerow of Natchez-Jackson was bishop in the 1970s. Long-term bishop Franz Xaver Schwarzenböck(1972-2010) [11] was then succeeded by Wieslaw Szlachetka, who has been bishop since December 21, 2013.[12]
Notes and References
- https://books.google.com/books%3Fid%3DInRAAAAAcAAJ%26pg%3DPA733%26lpg%3DPA733%26dq%3DVageatensis%26source%3Dbl%26ots%3DxGL3n3z7l-%26sig%3Dac3J_FPH35hr8bSDBkxbXXkRBIA&prev=search Historical-Portable Dictionary of Ancient and Modern Sacred Geography, 1759 p733
- http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d2v07.html&usg=ALkJrhhYSJKcyxKYY-e7D3l7RttikLmbpg Vageatensis
- Leslie Dossey, Peasant and Empire in Christian North Africa (University of California Press, 2010) p205.
- Jesper Carlsen, Vilici and Roman Estate Managers Until AD 284, Part 284 (L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER, 1995) p81-82.
- Leslie Dossey, Peasant and Empire in Christian North Africa (University of California Press, 2010)p205.
- http://edh-www.adw.uni-heidelberg.de/edh/inschrift/HD032211&lang=en Epigraphic Text Database
- Brent D. Shaw, Sacred Violence: African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine. (Cambridge University Press, 2011) page xvi.
- https://translate.google.com.au/translate?hl=en&sl=la&u=https://books.google.com/books%3Fid%3D9ihKAAAAcAAJ%26pg%3DRA5-PT550%26lpg%3DRA5-PT550%26dq%3DVageatensis%26source%3Dbl%26ots%3DwSdrfD-sbo%26sig%3DJqWgYimVO4X-LmNKNHHII2i7aic&prev=search Saints Zeno and Optatus, the first at Verona, the works of all the bishops of the other Milevi: Cui accessit - The history of the Donatists, the Bishops of Africa, together with the tombs that belong to it and geography
- Jean Louis Maier, The Episcopate of Roman, Vandal and Byzantine Africa (Swiss Institute of Rome, 1973) p301.
- Antoine-Augustin Bruzen from La Martinière, THE GREAT GEOGRAPHIC AND CRITICAL DICTIONARY, Volume 9 (1739).
- Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 204, Necrology
- Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 217, Number 18,066.