Centuria (Numidia)

This article is about a town in Africa. For other uses, see Centuria (disambiguation).

Centuria, also known as Centuriensis, was a Roman era town in Numidia, Roman province of Africa. It has been tentatively identified with ruins near Ain El Hadjar[1] in Algeria,[2][3] south of Saida.

## Bishopric[edit]

The city was the seat of an ancient bishopric and the seat is currently vacant. Known bishops of the town include:

* Quodvultdeus (fl. 402–411) (Catholic bishop attended the Council of Milevum (402) and Council of Carthage (411)
* Cresconio fl. 411) (rival Donatist)
* Gennaro fl.484
* Luis Camargo Pacheco (1622–1665)[4][5][6][7]
* Johann Kaspar Kühner (1664–1685)
* Andrew Giffard (1705 Appointed - Did not take office)
* John Douglass (1790–1812)[8]
* Myles Prendergast (1818–1844)
* Antonio Majthényi (1840–1856)
* St. Valentín Faustino Berrio Ochoa, (1857–1861) [9]
* Thomas McNulty (1864–1866)
* Bonifacio Antonio Toscano (1874–1896)
* Giuseppe Perrachon (1925–1944)
* Stanislao Czajka (1944–1965)
* William Joseph Moran (1965–1996)
* Piotr Libera (1996–2007)
* Ferenc Cserháti (2007–2023)[10]
* Jeffrey M. Monforton (2023-present)

## References[edit]

1. ^ H. Jaubert, "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. 31.
2. ^ Jean-Marie Lassère Onomastica africana V–VIII, Vol 18 Antiquités africaines 1982, 1 (pp. 167-175.
3. ^ Michael Greenhalgh, The Military and Colonial Destruction of the Roman Landscape of North Africa, 1830-1900 (BRILL, 8 May 2014)
4. ^ Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 140, Number 12,399.
5. ^ Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 4, Page 145.
6. ^ Episcopologio Español, Volume 1500, Page 143, Number 910.
7. ^ Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1622, Number 59.
8. ^ Encyclical Letter of the Bishops of Rama, Acanthos, and Centuria, 1791.
9. ^ "CatholicSaints.Info » Bishop of Centuria". catholicsaints.info. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
10. ^ Titular Episcopal See of Centuria at GCatholic.org.