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At the [[Conference of Carthage]] in 411, which brought together Catholic and [[Donatism|Donatist]] bishops, Quiza was represented by the [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholic]] Priscus, who had no Donatist counterpart. He is mentioned also in a letter of [[Saint Augustine]] to [[Pope Celestine I]].<ref> [http://books.google.com/books?id=cJnjXWQpknIC&pg=PA13&dq=Augustine+letter+209&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GQwOVOivOuuO7Qbzr4HICw&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Augustine%20letter%20209&f=false Augustine, Letter 209]</ref> [[Tiberianus of Quiza]] was one of the Catholic bishops whom the [[Arianism|Arian]] [[Vandals|Vandal]] king [[Huneric]] [[Councils of Carthage|summoned to Carthage]] in 484 and then [[exile]]d. In addition, the name of a Bishop Vitalianus appears in the mosaic pavement of the excavated basilica of Quiza.<ref> J. Mesnage, [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1096329/f499.image ''L'Afrique chrétienne''], Paris 1912, p. 484</ref><ref>Stefano Antonio Morcelli, [http://books.google.com/books?id=dO4-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA260 ''Africa christiana''], Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 260</ref><ref>Pius Bonifacius Gams, [http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/doccontent?id=65154&dirids=1 ''Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae''], [[Leipzig]] 1931, p. 467</ref> |
At the [[Conference of Carthage]] in 411, which brought together Catholic and [[Donatism|Donatist]] bishops, Quiza was represented by the [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholic]] Priscus, who had no Donatist counterpart. He is mentioned also in a letter of [[Saint Augustine]] to [[Pope Celestine I]].<ref> [http://books.google.com/books?id=cJnjXWQpknIC&pg=PA13&dq=Augustine+letter+209&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GQwOVOivOuuO7Qbzr4HICw&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Augustine%20letter%20209&f=false Augustine, Letter 209]</ref> [[Tiberianus of Quiza]] was one of the Catholic bishops whom the [[Arianism|Arian]] [[Vandals|Vandal]] king [[Huneric]] [[Councils of Carthage|summoned to Carthage]] in 484 and then [[exile]]d. In addition, the name of a Bishop Vitalianus appears in the mosaic pavement of the excavated basilica of Quiza.<ref> J. Mesnage, [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1096329/f499.image ''L'Afrique chrétienne''], Paris 1912, p. 484</ref><ref>Stefano Antonio Morcelli, [http://books.google.com/books?id=dO4-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA260 ''Africa christiana''], Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 260</ref><ref>Pius Bonifacius Gams, [http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/doccontent?id=65154&dirids=1 ''Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae''], [[Leipzig]] 1931, p. 467</ref> |
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No longer a residential [[bishopric]], Quiza is today listed by the [[Catholic Church]] as a [[titular see]].<ref>''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 957</ref> |
No longer a residential [[bishopric]], Quiza is today listed by the [[Catholic Church]] as a [[titular see]].<ref>''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 957</ref> |
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Revision as of 08:49, 14 March 2015
Quiza, which Pliny the Elder called Quiza Xenitana,[1] was a minor city or colony in Roman Africa, located in the late Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis.
History
Quiza Cenitana was a place located on the coast of Mauretania Caesariensis. Various ancient authors refer to it by different terms - colonia (Ptolemy), municipium (Antonine Itinerary), and oppidum (Pliny the Elder). Pleiades
Probably a small berber village with Phoenician roots, Quiza grew under the Roman empire: it is recorded that emperor Hadrian built in this city an arch around 120 AD.
William Smith identified Quiza with Giza near Oran, Algeria.[2] More recent investigations have identified it with present-day El-Benian on the coast road between Mostaga and Dara.[3][4][5]
In his Natural History, 4.2.3., Pliny the Elder: writes: "Next to this is Quiza Xenitana, a town founded by strangers"; a remark explained because the word Xenitana is derived from Greek ξένος, "a stranger",[6] as explained also by Victor Vitensis.[7] The town is mentioned also by Pliny elsewhere (5.2), by Ptolemy, and by Pomponius Mela.[2]
Bishopric
Quiza is also a Titular See of the Christianty. Quaestoriana was in the ecclesistical provence of Byzacena
[8]
At the Conference of Carthage in 411, which brought together Catholic and Donatist bishops, Quiza was represented by the Catholic Priscus, who had no Donatist counterpart. He is mentioned also in a letter of Saint Augustine to Pope Celestine I.[9] Tiberianus of Quiza was one of the Catholic bishops whom the Arian Vandal king Huneric summoned to Carthage in 484 and then exiled. In addition, the name of a Bishop Vitalianus appears in the mosaic pavement of the excavated basilica of Quiza.[10][11][12]
Bishops No longer a residential bishopric, Quiza is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.[13]
- Priscus fl 411.
- Tiberianus of Quiza fl484
- Vitalianus
- Adrien André Maria Cimichella, O.S.M. † (5 Jun 1964 Appointed - 21 Jul 2004 Died)
- José Guadalupe Torres Campos (10 Dec 2005 Appointed - 25 Nov 2008 Appointed, Bishop of Gómez Palacio, Durango)
- Cirilo B. Flores † (5 Jan 2009 Appointed - 4 Jan 2012 Appointed, Coadjutor Bishop of San Diego, California)
- Linas (Genadijus) Vodopjanovas, O.F.M. (11 Feb 2012 Appointed - )
References
- ^ This is sometimes mistakenly written Quiza Cenitana
- ^ a b Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854)
- ^ Marietta Horster, Bauinschriften römischer Kaiser (Franz Steiner Verlag 2001 ISBN 978-3-51507951-8), p. 434
- ^ Wolfram Letzner, Lucius Cornelius Sulla (LIT Verlag 2000 ISBN 978-3-82585041-8), p. 45
- ^ Herbert Cancick et al. (editors), Brill's New Pauly (Brill 2006 ISBN 978-9-00412272-7), p. cxcv
- ^ John Bostock, H.T. Riley (editors), The Natural History of Pliny (Henry G. Bohn, 1855) vol. 1, p. 385
- ^ Thierry Ruinart (editor), Historia persecutionis Vandalicae (1699), p. 344
- ^ Quiziensis at CatholicHeirachy.org.
- ^ Augustine, Letter 209
- ^ J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, Paris 1912, p. 484
- ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 260
- ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 467
- ^ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 957
Bibliography
- Laffi, Umberto. Colonie e municipi nello Stato romano Ed. di Storia e Letteratura. Roma, 2007 ISBN 8884983509
- Mommsen, Theodore. The Provinces of the Roman Empire Section: Roman Africa. (Leipzig 1865; London 1866; London: Macmillan 1909; reprint New York 1996) Barnes & Noble. New York, 1996