Ksar Sbahi

Ksar Sbahi
Commune and town
Landscape of the Hautes Plaines in the winter
Landscape of the Hautes Plaines in the winter
Country Algeria
ProvinceOum El Bouaghi Province
Population
 (1998)
 • Total11,095
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)

Ksar Sbahi is a town and commune in Oum El Bouaghi Province, Algeria and the site of Ancient Gadiaufala, a Roman city and former bishopric, now a Latin Catholic titular see.

According to the 1998 census it has a population of 11,095.[1]

History

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A Punic coin of Gadiauphala with the legend 𐤏𐤀 (ʿʾ)[2]

Gadiaufala was important enough in the Roman province of Numidia to become a suffragan bishopric of its capital's Metropolitan Archbishop of ?Cirta, but later faded.

Titular see

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The diocese was nominally restored as a titular bishopric in 1933. It has had the following incumbents, all of the lowest (episcopal) rank :

  • Luciano José Cabral Duarte (1966.07.14 – 1971.02.12), as Auxiliary Bishop of Aracaju (Brazil) (1966.07.14 – 1971.02.12); later succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Aracaju (1971.02.12 – 1998.08.26), First Vice-President of Latin American Episcopal Council (1979 – 1983)
  • Rodolfo Quezada Toruño (1972.04.05 – 1975.09.11), as Auxiliary Bishop of Zacapa (Guatemala) (1972.04.05 – 1975.09.11), promoted Coadjutor Bishop of Zacapa (1975.09.11 – 1980.02.16), succeeding as Bishop of Zacapa (1980.02.16 – 2001.06.19), also Bishop-Prelate of Santo Cristo de Esquipulas (Guatemala) (1986.06.24 – 2001.06.19), President of Episcopal Conference of Guatemala (1988 – 1992), later Metropolitan Archbishop of Guatemala (Guatemala) (2001.06.19 – 2010.10.02), President of Episcopal Conference of Guatemala (2002 – 2006), created Cardinal-Priest of S. Saturnino (2003.10.21 [2004.03.13] – 2012.06.04)
  • Jesús Arturo Roldán (1980.05.26 – 1991.11.09)
  • Elmo Noel Joseph Perera (1992.12.17 – 1995.06.01)
  • Antonio Federico Gatti (1996.07.01 – 1998.07.09)
  • Dieudonné Bogmis (1999.02.09 – 2004.10.15)
  • François Xavier Lê Văn Hồng (2005.02.19 – 2012.08.18), as Auxiliary Bishop of Huê (Vietnam) (2005.02.19 – 2012.08.18), next Metropolitan Archbishop of Huê (Vietnam) (2012.08.18 – ...), also Vice-President of Episcopal Conference of Vietnam (2013 – ...)
  • Joseph Đinh Đức Đạo (2013.02.28 – 2015.06.04)
  • Bishop-elect Natale Paganelli, Xaverians (S.X.) (2015.07.18 – ...), Apostolic Administrator of Makeni (Sierra Leone)

References

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  1. ^ Statoids
  2. ^ Head, Barclay; et al. (1911), "Numidia", Historia Numorum (2nd ed.), Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 886
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36°05′N 7°15′E / 36.083°N 7.250°E / 36.083; 7.250