Titular diocese of Thagaste
Thagaste ( Italian Tagaste ) is a titular diocese of the Roman Catholic Church .
The city, located in North Africa, was a bishopric in late antiquity , which went down in the 7th century with the Islamic expansion . It was located in the Roman province of Numidia south of the bishopric of St. Augustine , Hippo Regius . The later canonized Doctor of the Church and philosopher Augustine of Hippo was born in Thagaste. Today the city of Souq Ahras is located on the area of the former Numidian and later Roman settlement , which politically belongs to the province of the same name in Algeria .
| Titular Bishops of Thagaste | |||||
| No. | Surname | Office | from | to | photo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cristóbal Barrionuevo | Auxiliary Bishop in Cordoba and later in Sigüenza ( Spain ) | January 10, 1515 | September 25, 1552 | |
| 2 | Bernardo de Andújar | September 6, 1525 | |||
| 3 | André Streignart | Auxiliary Bishop in Liege | 1578 | May 5, 1615 | |
| 4th | Giovanni Delfino (Dolfino) | Coadjutor Patriarch of Aquileia ( Italy ) | June 23, 1656 | December 27, 1657 | |
| 5 | Alessandro Caputo OCarm | November 21, 1728 | May 21, 1731 | ||
| 6th | Blow Antonio Olóriz | Auxiliary Bishop in Monreale ( Italy ) | December 2, 1733 | ||
| 7th | Josephus Maria Marini OSA | July 22, 1754 | |||
| 8th | Jean-Baptiste du Plessis d'Argentré | February 28, 1774 | 17th September 1775 | ||
| 9 | Francisco Mateo Aguiriano Gomez | Auxiliary Bishop in Toledo ( Spain ) | April 15, 1776 | March 29, 1790 | |
| 10 | Franciscus Bugliari | Titular Bishop in Thagaste | March 26, 1792 | 17th August 1806 | |
| 11 | Eugène-Paul Coupat MEP | August 28, 1882-20. February 1883 Coadjutor Apostolic Vicar of East Sichuan February 20, 1883–26. January 1890 Vicar Apostolic of East Sichuan ( China ) |
August 28, 1882 | January 26, 1890 | |
| 12 | Anatole-Joseph Toulotte MAfr | Vicar Apostolic of the Vicariate Apostolic Sahara and Sudan | June 4, 1891 | January 23, 1907 | |
| 13 | Luis José María Amigó y Ferrer OFMCap | Apostolic Administrator of Solsona ( Spain ) | April 18, 1907 | July 18, 1913 | |
| 14th | Patrick Joseph Hayes | Auxiliary Bishop in New York ( USA ) | July 3, 1914 | March 10, 1919 | |
| 15th | Godefroy Frederix CICM | March 5, 1920 - March 14, 1922 Apostolic Vicar of Nordgansu March 14, 1922 - March 21, 1930 Apostolic Vicar of Ningsia ( Republic of China ) |
March 8, 1920 | June 18, 1938 | |
| 16 | Costantino Maria Attilio Barneschi OSM | Vicar Apostolic of Swaziland ( Swaziland ) | March 15, 1939 | January 11, 1951 | |
| 17th | Antonio Poma | Auxiliary Bishop in Mantua ( Italy ) | October 28, 1951 | September 8, 1954 | |
| 18th | Gilberto Baroni | Auxiliary Bishop in Bologna ( Italy ) | 4th December 1954 | May 30, 1963 | |
| 19th | Luigi Bettazzi | Auxiliary Bishop in Bologna ( Italy ) | August 10, 1963 | November 26, 1966 | |
| 20th |
Antonio Mauro Titular Archbishop pro hac vice |
Curia Archbishop | 4th July 1967 | December 9, 2001 | |
| 21st |
Ivo Scapolo Titular Archbishop pro hac vice |
Apostolic Nuncio | March 26, 2002 | ||
