Timici
Timiciwas aPhoenician,Numidian,andRomantown located in present-dayAin Matboul,Algeria[1](betweenSidi M'hamed Ben AliandTaougrit).
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 Timici ruins | |
| Location | Aïn Metboul,Sidi M'hamed Ben Ali |
| Height | 500 |
| Built | 4th century BC |
| Demolished | 6th century |
| Restored | 1th century[clarification needed] |
| Architectural style(s) | PunicandRoman |
Name[edit]
Timici is aLatinizationof the town'sPunicname𐤕𐤌𐤊𐤉(TMKY).[1][2]
Timici means fire inTamazight
History[edit]
Timici minted its ownbronzecoins withPuniclegends.[2]
Under theRomans,Timici was anative town(civitas) in theprovinceofMauretania Caesariensis.[3]
The town was previously identified with the ruins atAïn Témouchent,[4]which were actually the remnants of RomanAlbulae.
Religion[edit]
Timici was theseatof aChristianbishopinantiquity.Three of them appear in the surviving historical record. The title fell into abeyance during theIslamic conquest of the Maghrebbut was revived as aRoman Catholictitular see(Latin:Dioecesis Timicitana) in the 20th century.[5][6]
List of bishops[edit]
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- Vitorre a Catholic bishop who represented the town at theCouncil of Carthage (411),which heard the dispute between Catholic andDonatists.
- TheDonatistOptato was Vittores' counterpart at the conference.
- Honorius participated in thesynod assembled in Carthage in 484by KingHunericof theVandal Kingdom,after the synod Honorius was exiled.
- Fernando Ariztía Ruiz (1967–1976)
- Ramón Darío Molina Jaramillo (1977–1984)
- Toribio Ticona Porco(1986–1992)
- Francisco Cases Andreu(1994–1996)
- John Forrosuelo Du(1997–2001)[7]
- Donald George Sproxton(2001–current), Perth's auxiliary bishop.[8]
References[edit]
Citations[edit]
- ^abFiligheddu (2006),pp. 218–219.
- ^abHead & al. (1911),p. 890.
- ^Timiciat gcatholic.org.
- ^Fey, Henri Léon (1859), "Timici Colonia (Aïn-Temouchent de l'Ouest)",Revue Africaine,vol. No.18, pp. 420–435
{{citation}}:|volume=has extra text (help),including "Plan de Timici Colonia (Aïn Temouchent)".(in French) - ^Pius Bonifacius Gams,Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae,Leipzig, (1931), p. 469.
- ^Stefano Antonio Morcelli,Africa christiana,Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 325.
- ^Timiciat gcatholic.org.
- ^Entry titolareat catholic-hierarchy.org.
Bibliography[edit]
- Filigheddu, Paolo (2007), "Die Ortsnamen des Mittelmeerraums in der Phönizischen und Punischen Überlieferung",Ugarit-Forschungen: Internationales Jahrbuch für die Altertumskunde Syrien-Palästinas,vol.38 2006, Munster: Ugarit Verlag, pp. 149–266.(in German)
- Head, Barclay; et al. (1911),"Mauretania",Historia Numorum(2nd ed.), Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 887–890.
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