Ubaza was an ancient city and bishopric inRoman North Africa, which remains a Latintitular see.
Ubaza was among the many towns in theRoman province ofNumidia that were important enough to become asuffragan bishopric, but faded. Its present location is in modern Terrebaza,Algeria.
Its only recorded residential bishops both attended thecouncil called in 484 at Carthage byHuneric of theVandal Kingdom :
- the Catholic Victor, banished afterwards
- theDonastist heretic Secondinus.
The diocese was nominally restored in 1928 as Latintitular bishopric of Ubaza (Latin = Curiate Italian) / Ubazen(sis) (Latin adjective).
It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank:
- Aston Sebastian Joseph Chichester,Jesuits (S.J.) (4 March 1931 – 1 January 1955) as lastApostolic Vicar ofSalisbury (the (Southern)Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe) (4 March 1931 – 1 January 1955), later first Metropolitan Archbishop ofSalisbury (now Harare,Zimbabwe) (1 January 1955 – 23 November 1956), emeritate asTitular Archbishop ofVelebusdus (23 November 1956 – death 24 October 1962)
- Patrick H. Cronin,Columban Missionaries (S.S.C.M.E.) (24 May 1955 – 13 October 1970) asBishop-Prelate ofTerritorial Prelature of Ozamis (Philippines) (24 May 1955 – 13 October 1970); later Metropolitan Archbishop ofCagayan de Oro (Philippines) (13 October 1970 – retired 5 January 1988), died 1991
- Eduardo Herrera Riera (31 October 1970 – 5 July 1994) asAuxiliary Bishop ofArchdiocese of Barquisimeto (Venezuela) (31 October 1970 – 5 July 1994); previously Titular Bishop of Sesta (7 January 1965 – 30 November 1966) as Auxiliary Bishop ofCumaná (Venezuela) (7 January 1965 – 30 November 1966), Bishop ofGuanare (Venezuela) (30 November 1966 – 31 October 1970); later Bishop ofCarora (Venezuela) (5 July 1994 – retired 5 December 2003), died 2012
- Francis Xavier Irwin (24 July 1996 – ), emeritus as formerauxiliary bishop ofArchdiocese of Boston (Massachusetts, US), no previous prelature.
- a fraction ofMoniquirá, a town and municipality in Boyacá Department, part of the subregion of the Ricaurte Province, Colombia
Sources and external links
[edit]- Bibliography
- Stefano Antonio Morcelli,Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia, 1816, pp. 347–348
- J. Mesnage,L'Afrique chrétienne, Paris, 1912, p. 383
- H. Jaubert,Anciens évêchés et ruines chrétiennes de la Numidie et de la Sitifienne, inRecueil des Notices et Mémoires de la Société archéologique de Constantine, vol. 46, 1913, pp. 103–104
