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Azura was an ancient town and diocese in the Roman province of Numidia. It was located near present-day Henchir-Loulou, Algeria.

Bishopric

Azura did not send a representative to the Council of Nicaea[1] nor Chalcedon[2]

As a bishopric, Azura was represented by the Catholic bishop Victor at the Conference of Carthage of 411 between Catholic and Donatist bishops.

Its bishop Leporius was among the Catholic bishops whom the Arian Vandal king Huneric summoned to Carthage in 484 and then exiled.[3][4][5][6]

No longer a residential bishopric, Azura is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.[7]

  • Titular Bishop Gaétan Proulx, (2011.12.12 – 2016.07.02)[8]
  • Titular Bishop António José da Rocha Couto (2007.07.06 – 2011.11.19)[9]
  • Titular Bishop Edward Dajczak (1989.12.15 – 2007.06.23)
  • Titular Bishop Afonso Maria Ungarelli (1948.11.13 – 1988.05.23)

The current Bishop is Mexican born Jorge Humberto Rodríguez-Novelo, of Denver.

See also

References

  1. ^ Heinrich Gelzer Patrum Nicaenorum nomina Latine, Graece, Coptice, Syriace, Arabice, Armeniace (In aedibus B.G. Teubneri, 1995 ).
  2. ^ Richard Price, Michael Gaddis, The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon, Volume 1 (Liverpool University press, 2005)
  3. ^ J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, Paris 1912, p. 401
  4. ^ Auguste Audollent, v. "Azurensis" in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. V, 1931, col. 1380
  5. ^ Auguste Audollent, v. Azurensis in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. V, 1931, col. 1380
  6. ^ H. Jaubert, "Anciens évêchés et ruines chrétiennes de la Numidie et de la Sitifienne" in Recueil des Notices et Mémoires de la Société archéologique de Constantine, vol. 46, 1913, pp. 8-9
  7. ^ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 844
  8. ^ http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t0252.htm Azura].
  9. ^ Azura at Catholic heirachy.org.[self-published source]
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