The Diocese of Mina (Latin: Dioecesis Minensis) was a Roman– Berber civitas and Roman Catholic diocese in Mauretania Caesariensis. It is a Catholic Church titular see. [1] [2]
Mina was a civitas of the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis. It has been tentatively identified with ruins near Relizane in modern Algeria. [3] While Mina flourished in late antiquity, it did not last long after the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb.
- Cecilio took part in the synod assembled in Carthage in 484 by King Huneric the Vandal, after which the bishop was exiled.
- Secondino intervened at the Carthaginian Council of 525.
- Herman Joseph Meysing, 1929–1951
- Joseph Mark McShea 1951–1962
- Heinrich Theissing 1963–1988
- Carlos Arthur Sevilla 1988–1996
- John 'Oke Afareha 1997–2010
- Wilfried Theising, auxiliary bishop of Münster 2010–current [4]
- ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 467.
- ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 230.
- ^ entry at www.gcatholic.org.
- ^ Mina at catholic-hierarchy.org.
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The Diocese of Mina (Latin: Dioecesis Minensis) was a Roman– Berber civitas and Roman Catholic diocese in Mauretania Caesariensis. It is a Catholic Church titular see. [1] [2]
Mina was a civitas of the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis. It has been tentatively identified with ruins near Relizane in modern Algeria. [3] While Mina flourished in late antiquity, it did not last long after the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb.
- Cecilio took part in the synod assembled in Carthage in 484 by King Huneric the Vandal, after which the bishop was exiled.
- Secondino intervened at the Carthaginian Council of 525.
- Herman Joseph Meysing, 1929–1951
- Joseph Mark McShea 1951–1962
- Heinrich Theissing 1963–1988
- Carlos Arthur Sevilla 1988–1996
- John 'Oke Afareha 1997–2010
- Wilfried Theising, auxiliary bishop of Münster 2010–current [4]
- ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 467.
- ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 230.
- ^ entry at www.gcatholic.org.
- ^ Mina at catholic-hierarchy.org.
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