Macomades was aCarthaginian andRoman city inNorth Africa . It was located near present-dayOum-El-Bouaghi ,Algeria
Macomades was established as an inlandPunic trading post under the nameMQMʾ Punic :𐤌𐤒𐤌𐤀 ,[ 1] Cirta .[ 1] bronze coins with anEgyptian -style god's headobverse and areverse bearing either ahog andgalloping horse or a disk in a crescent, a symbol of thePunic goddess Tanit .[ 1]
It was a town in theRoman province ofNumidia .
It was overrun by theUmayyad Caliphate during the7th-century Muslim invasion .
No later than AD 256, the town was theseat of aChristian bishop . The diocese was in abeyance after the Muslim conquest of the region until it was restored by theRoman Catholic Church in 1933 as atitular bishopric (diocesis Macomadensis [ 2]
Cassius, at thecouncil of Carthage called in 256 by SaintCyprianus to discuss the'lapsed' Christians who preferred forcedidolatry tomartyrdom Donatus, mentioned after 406, praised bySaint Augustine of Hippo inContra Cresconium Donatism Aurelius participated in the411 council of Carthage (where both Catholic and heretical bishops were invited) as well as his Donatist counterpart from Macomades, Sallustius Pardalius was exiled after participating in the484 synod of Carthage , called by the Vandal kingHuneric , an Arian; in 487 he parttook, probably as Numidian delegate, inPope Felix III 's Lateran Council. Florentino Armas Lerena (8 April 1967 – 25 November 1979), while firstBishop-Prelate ofTerritorial Prelature of Chota and still on emeritate Ricardo Watty Urquidi (27 May 1980 – 6 November 1989), asAuxiliary Bishop ofMexico City , later Bishop ofNuevo Laredo , Bishop ofTepic Francisco Clavel Gil (from 27 June 2001), emeritus as former Auxiliary Bishop emeritus ofMexico City
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