Azura was an ancient civitas and bishopric in Roman North Africa. It remains only as Latin Catholic titular see.

History

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Azura was one of many cities of sufficient importance in the Roman(-Berber) province of Numidia to become a suffragan. The town was located near present-day Henchir-Loulou (itself a former Roman city and bishopric, Rotaria), Algeria.

Bishopric

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Azura did not send a representative to the Council of Nicaea[1] nor Chalcedon.[2]

As a bishopric, Azura was represented by the Catholic bishop Victor at the Conference of Carthage (411), where the Catholics declared the schismatic Donatist bishops heretics.

Its bishop Leporius was among the Catholic bishops whom the Arian king Huneric of the Vandal Kingdom summoned to Carthage in 484 and was then exiled, like most Catholics.[3][4][5][6]

Titular see

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The diocese of Azura was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin Titular bishopric of Azura (Latin = Curiate Italian) / Azuen(sis) (Latin adjective).[7]

It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank:[8]

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Heinrich Gelzer Patrum Nicaenorum nomina Latine, Graece, Coptice, Syriace, Arabice, Armeniace (In aedibus B.G. Teubneri, 1995 ).
  2. ^ Richard Price, Michael Gaddis, The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon, Volume 1 (Liverpool University Press, 2005)
  3. ^ "J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, Paris 1912, p. 401". Archived from the original on 2014-08-16. Retrieved 2014-06-30.
  4. ^ "Auguste Audollent, v. "Azurensis" in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. V, 1931, col. 1380" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2014-01-08. Retrieved 2014-06-30.
  5. ^ Auguste Audollent, v. Azurensis in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques Archived 2014-01-08 at the Wayback Machine, vol. V, 1931, col. 1380
  6. ^ "H. Jaubert, "Anciens évêchés et ruines chrétiennes de la Numidie et de la Sitifienne" in Recueil des Notices et Mémoires de la Société archéologique de Constantine, vol. 46, 1913, pp. 8-9". Archived from the original on 2014-08-16. Retrieved 2014-06-30.
  7. ^ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 844
  8. ^ Azura Archived 2014-07-16 at the Wayback Machine.
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