Diocese of Ziqua is a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church in North Africa.
Ziqua was an ancient Roman town of classical antiquity, in Roman North Africa, during the Roman Empire. [1] [2] [3]
It was on the road from the port at Neopolis to Thabbora in the hinterland, and is today identified with ruins at Henchir-Belaiet in Tunisia, and has given its name to the town of Zaghouan nearby. [4] [5] [6]
The ancient town was located at 36.393555, 10.1390015 and flourished from 330 BC – AD 640, with the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb. The town was the cathedra of a bishopric. [7] which survives today as a titular bishopric of the Catholic province of Proconsolare; with Silvio José Báez Ortega of Nicaragua as the current bishop. [8]
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin Titular bishopric of Zica (Latin = Curiate Italian) / Zicen(sis) (Latin adjective).
It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank, with an archiepiscopal exception:
Diocese of Ziqua is a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church in North Africa.
Ziqua was an ancient Roman town of classical antiquity, in Roman North Africa, during the Roman Empire. [1] [2] [3]
It was on the road from the port at Neopolis to Thabbora in the hinterland, and is today identified with ruins at Henchir-Belaiet in Tunisia, and has given its name to the town of Zaghouan nearby. [4] [5] [6]
The ancient town was located at 36.393555, 10.1390015 and flourished from 330 BC – AD 640, with the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb. The town was the cathedra of a bishopric. [7] which survives today as a titular bishopric of the Catholic province of Proconsolare; with Silvio José Báez Ortega of Nicaragua as the current bishop. [8]
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin Titular bishopric of Zica (Latin = Curiate Italian) / Zicen(sis) (Latin adjective).
It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank, with an archiepiscopal exception: