Equizetum
Equizetum is a former city and bishopric in Roman North Africa which only remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
Its presumed location is Ouled-Agla in present Algeria.
History
It was among the cities of sufficient importance in the Roman province of Mauretania Sitifensis to become a suffragan diocese, but was to fade, plausibly at the seventh century advent of Islam.Two of its bishops are historically documented:
- The schismatic Donatist Victor attended the Council of Carthage in 411, where the prevailing Catholic bishops declared his sect heretical.
- Pacatus, participant in the Council of Carthage called in 484 by Arian king Huneric of the Vandal Kingdom, after which ha was exiled like most catholic bishops.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin titular bishopric of Equizetum / Equizeto / Equizeten.It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal rank:
- Michael Rodrigues as emeritus; formerly Bishop of Belgaum
- Juan Tarsicio Senner, Friars Minor as emeritus, died 1985; formerly Titular Bishop of Rusadus first as Apostolic Vicar of Chiquitos and then as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Sucre, next Bishop of Cochabamba
- Ronald Gerard Connors, Redemptorists as Coadjutor Bishop of San Juan de la Maguana ; next succeeded as Bishop of San Juan de la Maguana, died 2002
- José Vittorio Tommasí as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Bahía Blanca ; next Bishop of Nueve de Julio
- Juan Bautista Herrada Armijo, Mercedarians first as Apostolic Administrator of Territorial Prelature of Calama, then as Bishop-Prelate of Calama, finally as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Antofagasta
- Antonio Nova Rocha as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Barranquilla and Apostolic Administrator of Barranquilla ; later Bishop of Facatativá
- Santo Loku Pio Doggale as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Juba .