Thagora
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Thagora was a town in the Roman province of Numidia corresponding to Taoura in Algeria.
The Tabula Peutingeriana calls it Thacora.
Bishopric
Thagora was also a bishopric that, no longer being a residential see, is included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees.[1]
Diocesan bishops
The names of three of its diocesan bishops are known:[2]
- Xanthippus, mentioned by Augustine of Hippo in 401
- Postumianus, who participated in the Conference of Carthage in 411
- Timotheus, twentieth in the list of the Catholic bishops whom Hunneric summoned to Carthage in 484 and then exiled.
Titular bishops
- John Baptist Cahill (1900)
- Alexandre Piquemal (1909–1920)
- Miguel de los Santos Díaz y Gómara (1920–1924)
- Jozef Cársky (1925–1962)
- Carlo Livraghi (1962–1975)
- Eduardo Martínez Somalo (1975–1988)
- Cipriano Calderón Polo (1988–2009)
- Giuseppe Marciante (2009–)
References
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- ↑ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 300
