Phoenician and Carthaginian colony and Roman town
Rusubbicari was aPhoenician andCarthaginian colony andRoman town. It has been tentatively identified with ruins atZemmouri El Bahri,Algeria .[ 1] province ofMauretania Caesariensis .[ 2] [ 3] [ 4]
The present name is a masculine plural noun, suggesting it may have originally consisted of two or three separate settlements. It seems to alatinization of aPhoenician name including the elementrush (Punic :𐤓𐤀𐤔 ,RʾŠ cape ") and a localBerber placename.[ 5]
Rusubbicari was aChristian bishopric in late antiquity and is aCatholic titular see (Latin :Dioecesis Rusubbicarensis ).[ 6]
At the411 Carthage conference between Catholic baptists andDonatists ofRoman Africa , the town was represented by the Donatist Costanzo as the diocese on that occasion had no Catholic bishops. Paolino participated in thesynod assembled in Carthage in 484 by theVandal KingHuneric , after which Paolino was exiled. José da Silva Chaves (November 29, 1967 – May 14, 1976 appointed bishop ofUruaç )Victor León Esteban San Miguel y Erce (May 31, 1976 – April 4, 1995 deceased)Douglas William Young (14 April 2000 – 17 July 2006 appointed Archbishop ofMount Hagen )Sergio Osvaldo Buenanueva (July 16, 2008 – May 31, 2013 appointed bishop of San Francisco)Jose Puthenveettil , since August 23, 2013Today Rusubbicari survives as atitular bishopric holder; The current bishop is Jose Puthenveettil, auxiliary bishop ofErnakulam-Angamaly .[ 7]
^ Salama, Pierre.Sites commerciaux antiques sur le littoral de l’Algérois . In:Mélanges de l'École française de Rome: Antiquité , vol. 118, n°2. 2006. pp. 527-547. ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams ,Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae , (Leipzig, 1931) p. 468.^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli,Africa christiana , Volume I, (Brescia, 1816) p. 267. ^ J. Mesnage,L'Afrique chrétienne , (Paris, 1912) pp. 461–462. ^ Lipiński (2004) , p. 402 .^ Annuario Pontificio 2013ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1 ), "Sedi titolari", pp. 819-1013^ Rusubbicarensis at Catholic-hierarchy.org.
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