Maturba

Maturba is a locality in Algeria, North Africa.

Not to be confused with Martuba, a town in Libya.
Roman Empire - Mauretania Caesariensis (125 AD)

During the Roman Empire there was a Roman town located here. That town flourished in late antiquity from AD 300 to AD640.[1] The town did not last long after the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb.

Maturba was also the seat of an ancient titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church.[2] The bishopric survives today as a titular see.[3][4][5] The current bishop is Paul Simick who replaced José Luís Gerardo Ponce de León in 2014.[6]

References
  1. D. J. Mattingly, R. Talbert, T. Elliott, and S. Gillies, 'Martuba at Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2012
  2. Maturbensis at Catholic-Hierarchy.org.
  3. Diocesi di Maturba at www.gcatholic.org.
  4. Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 467.
  5. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 217.
  6. Diocesi di Maturba at www.catholic-hierarchy.org.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.