Ancient Roman town in North Africa
Roman Empire - Mauretania Caesariensis (125 AD).
Grimidi was an ancient Roman town of the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis , located at 3.73031 35.87687 in North Africa.[1] It flourished from about 30BC to about 640AD . Numerous ruins litter the site.
Bishopric
The diocese of Tamazuca (Latin: Dioecesis Tamazucensis ) is a suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church .[2]
[3] It is presumed that the diocese of Tamazuca,[4] was centered on the ancient town Grimidi in today's Algeria.[5]
Known bishops have included:[6]
References
^ "Gunugu: a Pleiades place resource" . Pleiades: a gazetteer of past places . Retrieved 2018-01-29 .
^ Pius Bonifacius Gams , Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae , (Leipzig, 1931), p.468.
^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana , Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p.304.
^ David Cheney, Diocese of Tamazuca , at Catholic-Hierarchy.org
^ Titular Episcopal See of Tamazuca , at GCatholic.org.
^ David Cheney, Diocese of Tamazuca , at Catholic-Hierarchy.org.