Macomades

Not to be confused withMacomades Minoresin present-day Tunisia orMacomades Rusticana,a titular see.

Macomadeswas aCarthaginianandRomancity inNorth Africa.It was located near present-dayOum-El-Bouaghi,Algeria

History

Further information:Maghreb placename etymology

Macomades was established as an inlandPunictrading post under the nameMQMʾ(Punic:𐤌𐤒𐤌𐤀,"Place" ). It was about 64 kilometers (40 mi) fromCirta.It issued its ownbronzecoins with anEgyptian-style god's headobverseand areversebearing either ahogandgallopinghorseor a disk in a crescent, a symbol of thePunic goddessTanit.

It was a town in theRomanprovinceofNumidia.

It was overrun by theUmayyad Caliphateduring the7th-century Muslim invasion.

Religion

No later than AD256, the town was theseatof aChristianbishop.The diocese was in abeyance after the Muslim conquest of the region until it was restored by theRoman Catholic Churchin 1933 as atitular bishopric(diocesis Macomadensis).

List of bishops

• Cassius, at thecouncil of Carthage called in 256by SaintCyprianusto discuss the'lapsed' Christianswho preferred forcedidolatrytomartyrdom
• Donatus, mentioned after 406, praised bySaint Augustine of HippoinContra Cresconiumfor abjuring the heresyDonatism
• Aurelius participated in the411 council of Carthage(where both Catholic and heretical bishops were invited) as well as his Donatist counterpart from Macomades, Sallustius
• Pardalius was exiled after participating in the484 synod of Carthage,called by the Vandal kingHuneric,an Arian; in 487 he parttook, probably as Numidian delegate, inPope Felix III's Lateran Council.
• Florentino Armas Lerena (8 April 1967– 25 November 1979), while firstBishop-PrelateofTerritorial Prelature of Chotaand still on emeritate
• Ricardo Watty Urquidi (27 May 1980– 6 November 1989), asAuxiliary BishopofMexico City,later Bishop ofNuevo Laredo,Bishop ofTepic
• Francisco Clavel Gil (from 27 June 2001), emeritus as former Auxiliary Bishop emeritus ofMexico City

See also

• List of Catholic dioceses in Algeria

References

Bibliography

• Head, Barclay; et al. (1911),"Numidia",Historia Numorum(2nd ed.), Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 884–887.
• Huss, Werner (1990),Der Karthager,Munich: C.H. Beck,ISBN9783406379123.