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
The city was the seat of an ancient bishopric and the current bishop is Jeffrey M. Monforton. 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)[11]
References
- 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.
- 11."Pope Francis Appoints Bishop Jeffrey Monforton as Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit; Appoints Bishop Paul Bradley as Apostolic Administrator of Steubenville". United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. September 28, 2023. Archived from the original on September 28, 2023. Retrieved August 24, 2026.