Lari Castellum

Summary

The Diocese of Lari Castellum (Dioecesis Laritana) is a suppressed and titular see of the Catholic Church.[1][2][3] province of Mauritania Caesariensis. Lari Castle is centered on Imilaën[4] in modern Algeria[5] and the current titular bishop is Ramiro Díaz Sánchez, OMI, former vicar apostolic of Machiques.

Roman North Africa

Known bishops edit

  • Restitutus (mentioned in 411 ) (a Donatist bishop)
  • Carlos Riu Anglés (September 10, 1964 – November 28, 1971)
  • Michele Giordano, Archbishop of Matera (December 23, 1971 – June 12, 1974)
  • Alfredo José Rodríguez Figueroa † (24 July 1974 – 12 March 1987)
  • Rodolfo Francisco Bobadilla Mata, CM (May 15, 1987 – September 28, 1996)
  • Ramiro Díaz Sánchez, OMI, from 24 January 1997

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae (Leipzig, 1931), p.466.
  2. ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana, Volume I, (Brescia 1816), pp.199-200.
  3. ^ David Cheney, Lari Castellum at catholic-hierarchy.org.
  4. ^ Memories of the Archaeological Society of Southern France, Vol.7 (Archaeological Society of Southern France, 1860). page 302.
  5. ^ Memories of the Archaeological Society of Southern France, Vol.7 (Archaeological Society of Southern France, 1860), page 302.