Gunugus: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
m Robot - Speedily moving category Roman towns and cities in Mauretania Ceasariensis to Category:Roman towns and cities in Mauretania Caesariensis per CFDS. |
||
| Line 17: | Line 17: | ||
[[Category:Catholic titular sees in Africa]] |
[[Category:Catholic titular sees in Africa]] |
||
[[Category:Former Roman Catholic dioceses in Africa]] |
[[Category:Former Roman Catholic dioceses in Africa]] |
||
[[Category:Roman towns and cities in Mauretania |
[[Category:Roman towns and cities in Mauretania Caesariensis]] |
||
[[Category:Ancient Berber cities]] |
[[Category:Ancient Berber cities]] |
||
Revision as of 17:01, 14 January 2018
.svg)
Gunugus was an ancient Roman–Berber colonia of the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis. It existed through the Vandal Kingdom and the Byzantine Empire and Roman Empire.[1].[2]
The colony was founded by the Roman emperor Augustus, and a settlement on the site lasted from 550BC to AD640 under the Punics, the Vandal Kingdom and the Roman Empire.[3][4] It is possible that it was constructed on a prior Greek port town.[5]
The site of the ancient town has been tentatively identified with Sidi Brahim de Gouraya, on the Mediterranean coast (near Gouraya) (36.570982, 1.90305[6]) in today's Algeria,[7] though there is some doubt of this identification.
Bishopric
The town was also the seat of an ancient Roman Catholic bishopric.[8][9] The only known bishop of this diocese is Ausilio, who took part in the synod assembled in Carthage in 484 by the Vandal King Huneric, after which Ausilio was exiled. Today Gunugo Diocese survives as a titular bishopric[10] of the Roman Catholic Church and the current bishop is Vigilio Mario Olmi, of Brescia.[11]
References
- ^ https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/295268
- ^ http://imperium.ahlfeldt.se/places/22357.html
- ^ http://www.trismegistos.org/place/20517
- ^ Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 30 C3.
- ^ https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/295268/gunugu
- ^ https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/295268
- ^ Titular Episcopal See of Gunugus, at GCatholic.org.
- ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p.466.
- ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p.177.
- ^ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), "Sedi titolari", pp. 819-1013
- ^ http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d2g68.html
 | This article about a location in Algiers Province is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |