Media, Africa
Media was an ancient city and former bishopric in Roman North Africa, now a Latin Catholic titular see in Algeria.
History
Media was important enough in the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis, in the papal sway, to become one of the many suffragan dioceses, but was to fade completely, no ruins being identified.Its only historically documented bishop was Emilius, who attended the synod of Carthage called in 484 by king Huneric of the Vandal Kingdom, after which he was banished like most Catholic participants, unlike the Donatist heretics.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin titular bishopric of Media / Medien.It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting Episcopal rank with archiepiscopal exceptions :
- Antoine Hacault as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Saint Boniface
- Titular Archbishop: Antoine Hacault as Coadjutor Archbishop of Saint-Boniface ; later succeeded as Metropolitan Archbishop of Saint-Boniface
- Endre Kovács, Cistercian Order as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Eger and as emeritate
- Petro Herkulan Malchuk, Friars Minor as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Odesa–Simferopol ; later Archbishop-Bishop of Diocese of Kyïv–Žytomyr
- Gabriel Narciso Escobar Ayala, Salesians, as Apostolic Vicar of Chaco Paraguayo .