Arsennaria

Arsennaria was an ancient Roman town of the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis in North Africa, and an ancient episcopal see of the Roman Catholic Church.[1][2]

Roman Empire - Mauretania Caesariensis (125 AD)

Town Remains

The ruins of the city are tentatively located at Bou-Râs in modern Algeria.[3] (36.334326n, 0.873111e)[4]

Arsennaria flourished from 330BC – AD640.

Bishopric

The only known bishop of this town from antiquity is Filone, who took part in the synod assembled in Carthage in 484 by the Vandal King Huneric, after which Filone was exiled.

Although the diocese did not survive past the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb, Arsennaria survives today as a titular bishopric [5]and last bishop was José Alberto Rozo Gutiérrez, an apostolic vicar of Puerto Gaitán.[6]

References
  1. Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 464.
  2. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 84.
  3. Titular Episcopal See of Arsennaria, at GCatholic.org.
  4. "Arsennaria: a Pleiades place resource". Pleiades: a gazetteer of past places. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
  5. Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), "Sedi titolari", pp. 819-1013
  6. Arsennaria at Catholic-hierarchy.org.


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