Thucca in Numidia was an Ancient Roman era town and the seat of an ancient Bishopric during the Roman Empire, which remains only as a Latin Catholic titular see.
Numidia was a Roman province on the North African coast, comprising roughly the territory of northeastern Algeria.
Thucca was a town in the Roman province of Mauretania Sitifensis. Pliny the Elder describes Thucca as "impositum mari et flumini Ampsagae" (overlooking the sea and the River Ampsaga), and thus on the border with Numidia. The town was a Christian...
This is the official list of titular sees of the Catholic Church included in the Annuario Pontificio. Archiepiscopal sees are shown in bold. The Italian-language Annuario Pontificio devotes some 200 pages to listing these sees, with up to a dozen...
The Diocese of Ostrava-Opava (Latin: Ostraviensis-Opaviensis) is a suffragan Latin diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Olomouc in Moravskoslezský kraj, Moravia, in the Czech Republic.
Simon Peter Kamomoe (born 26 November 1962) is a Kenyan prelate of the Catholic Church who is the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wote, since 14 May 2026. Before that, from 5 February 2025 until 14 May 2026, he served as auxiliary bishop of...
The history of North Africa is typically divided into its prehistory, the classical period, the arrival and spread of Islam, the colonial era, and finally the post-independence period, in which the current nations were formed. The region has been...
Federico Richter Fernández-Prada O.F.M. (February 14, 1922 – August 8, 2011) was a Peruvian Prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Federico Richter Fernández-Prada was born in Huanta, Peru, ordained a priest on July 14, 1946 from the religious order...
Dougga or Thugga or TBGG (Arabic: دقة, romanized: Duqqah; Tunisian Arabic: دڨة, romanized: ) was a Berber, Punic and Roman settlement near present-day Téboursouk in northern Tunisia. The current archaeological site covers 75 hectares (190 acres)....
Byzacena (or Byzacium; Ancient Greek: Βυζάκιον, romanized: Byzakion) was a Late Roman province in the central part of Roman North Africa, which is now roughly Tunisia, split off from Africa Proconsularis.
