Timici was a Phoenician, Numidian, and Roman town located in present-day Ain Matboul, Algeria[1] (between Sidi M'hamed Ben Ali and Taougrit).
Name
Timici is a Latinization of the town's Punic name 𐤕𐤌𐤊𐤉 (tmky).[1][2]
Timici means fire in Tamazight.
History
Timici minted its own bronze coins with Punic legends.[2]
Under the Romans, Timici was a native town (civitas) in the province of Mauretania Caesariensis.[3]
The town was previously identified with the ruins at Aïn Témouchent,[4] which were actually the remnants of Roman Albulae.
Religion
Timici was the seat of a Christian bishop in antiquity. Three of them appear in the surviving historical record. The title fell into abeyance during the Islamic conquest of the Maghreb but was revived as a Roman Catholic titular see (Latin: Dioecesis Timicitana) in the 20th century.[5][6]
List of bishops
- Vitorre a Catholic bishop who represented the town at the Council of Carthage (411), which heard the dispute between Catholic and Donatists.
- The Donatist Optato was Vittores' counterpart at the conference.
- Honorius participated in the synod assembled in Carthage in 484 by King Huneric of the Vandal Kingdom, after the synod Honorius was exiled.
- Fernando Ariztía Ruiz (1967–1976)
- Ramón Darío Molina Jaramillo (1977–1984)
- Toribio Ticona Porco (1986–1992)
- Francisco Cases Andreu (1994–1996)
- John Forrosuelo Du (1997–2001)[7]
- Donald George Sproxton (2001–current), Perth's auxiliary bishop.[8]
References
- 1.[1.2]Filigheddu (2006), pp. 218–219.
- 2.[2.2]Head & al. (1911), p. 890.
- 3.Timici at gcatholic.org.
- 4.Fey, Henri Léon (1859), "Timici Colonia (Aïn-Temouchent de l'Ouest)", Revue Africaine, vol. 18, pp. 420–435, including "Plan de Timici Colonia (Aïn Temouchent)". (in French)
- 5.Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig, (1931), p. 469.
- 6.Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 325.
- 7.Timici at gcatholic.org.
- 8.Entry titolare at catholic-hierarchy.org.