Rotaria (adjective Rotariensis) was an ancient Roman and Byzantine era bishopric Christianography, of the Christian World (Robert Clavell, 1674) p167. of Numidia, North Africa.
The civitas turned predominantly Donatist (a schismatic heresy) in Churchmanship.Henri Irénée Marrou, André Mandouze, Anne-Marie La Bonnardière, Prosopographie de l'Afrique chrétienne (303–533) (Éditions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1 Jan. 1982) p 1170. and appears to have been ethnically Roman rather than Berber.ROMANISATION ET EVANGELISATION . It is a titular seePius Bonifacius Gams, Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p.468.Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, pp.262-263. and the title is now held by Ivan Šaško, auxiliary bishop of Zagreb.
Rotaria has been identified with Henchir-Loulou, near Renier Algeria, but was located in the Roman province of Numidia.H. Jaubert, /ark:/12148/bpt6k5457275x/f96.image "Évêchés Anciens et ruines chrétiennes de la Numidie et de la Sitifienne" in Reports of Notices et Memoires de la Société archéologique de Constantine, vol.46, 1913, p.72
Nearby Azura, Numidia, also was a civitas and bishopric, and similarly now a Latin Catholic titular see.
Bishops
Felix Henri Irénée Marrou, André Mandouze, Anne-Marie La Bonnardière, Prosopographie de l'Afrique chrétienne (303–533) (1982) p1280.Patrologiae cursus completus ...: Series latina, Volume 11(edited by Jacques-Paul Migne, 1845), p329.(Donatist Bishop). Simplicus (411) (Donatist) VictorActa conciliorum et epistolae decretales ac constitutiones summorum pontificum (edited by Jean Hardouin, Claude Rigaud (París)) p7.(411) took part in the Council of Carthage (411).
Pavol Brezanóczy (15 September 1964 – 10 January 1969)Rotaria, at GCatholic.org. Percival Caza (18 March 1969 – 26 November 1970) La sede titolare nel sito di www.catholic-hierarchy.org Vincent Madeley Harris (27 April 1971 – 15 November 1971) Reinhard Lettmann (18 January 1973 – 11 January 1980) Martino Scarafile (20 December 1980 – 31 October 1985) Agustín Otero Largacha (3 May 1986 – 9 May 2004) Gonzalo de Villa y Vásquez (9 July 2004 – 28 July 2007) Ivan Šaško (11 February 2008 – present)
See also List of Catholic dioceses in Algeria
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