Vageata

Vageata, also known as Vageatensis,^[1] was a Roman-Berber town in the province of Mauretania Caesariensis.^[2] It is also known as Bagatensis,^[3] and epigraphical evidence remains attesting to this etymology,^[4]^[5]^[6] due to the interchange of 'v' for 'b' is a common phenomenon in Latin and Greek place names.

The city has been identified with ruins at El-Haria, located east of Cirta en route to Thibilis.^[7] It was mentioned by Optatus of Milevis, in Numidia.^[8]

Bishopric

The city was also a seat of an ancient bishopric though only two bishops are known to history. Donatus of Vageaensis was known from the Council of Carthage (411).^[9]^[10]

Fulgentius (Catholic bishop) fl.484 was exiled by Vandal king Huneric in 484AD. Richard Oliver Gerow of Natchez-Jackson was bishop in the 1970s. Long-term bishop Franz Xaver Schwarzenböck(1972-2010) ^[11] was then succeeded by Wieslaw Szlachetka, who has been bishop since December 21, 2013.^[12]

References

^ Historical-Portable Dictionary of Ancient and Modern Sacred Geography, 1759 p733.
^ Vageatensis
^ Leslie Dossey, Peasant and Empire in Christian North Africa (University of California Press, 2010) p205.
^ Jesper Carlsen, Vilici and Roman Estate Managers Until AD 284, Part 284 (L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER, 1995) p81-82.
^ Leslie Dossey, Peasant and Empire in Christian North Africa (University of California Press, 2010)p205.
^ Epigraphic Text Database.
^ Brent D. Shaw, Sacred Violence: African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine. (Cambridge University Press, 2011) page xvi.
^ Saints Zeno and Optatus, the first at Verona, the works of all the bishops of the other Milevi: Cui accessit - The history of the Donatists, the Bishops of Africa, together with the tombs that belong to it and geography (Vrayet, 1845).
^ Jean Louis Maier, The Episcopate of Roman, Vandal and Byzantine Africa (Swiss Institute of Rome, 1973)p301.
^ Antoine-Augustin Bruzen from La Martinière , THE GREAT GEOGRAPHIC AND CRITICAL DICTIONARY, Volume 9 (1739).
^ Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 204, Necrology
^ Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 217, Number 18,066.

[1] Historical-Portable Dictionary of Ancient and Modern Sacred Geography, 1759 p733.

[2] Vageatensis

[3] Leslie Dossey, Peasant and Empire in Christian North Africa (University of California Press, 2010) p205.

[4] Jesper Carlsen, Vilici and Roman Estate Managers Until AD 284, Part 284 (L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER, 1995) p81-82.

[5] Leslie Dossey, Peasant and Empire in Christian North Africa (University of California Press, 2010)p205.

[6] Epigraphic Text Database.

[7] Brent D. Shaw, Sacred Violence: African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine. (Cambridge University Press, 2011) page xvi.

[8] Saints Zeno and Optatus, the first at Verona, the works of all the bishops of the other Milevi: Cui accessit - The history of the Donatists, the Bishops of Africa, together with the tombs that belong to it and geography (Vrayet, 1845).

[9] Jean Louis Maier, The Episcopate of Roman, Vandal and Byzantine Africa (Swiss Institute of Rome, 1973)p301.

[10] Antoine-Augustin Bruzen from La Martinière , THE GREAT GEOGRAPHIC AND CRITICAL DICTIONARY, Volume 9 (1739).

[11] Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 204, Necrology

[12] Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 217, Number 18,066.

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