Rusubbicari
Rusubbicari was a Phoenician and Carthaginian colony and Roman town. It has been tentatively identified with ruins at Zemmouri El Bahri, Algeria. The Roman town was in the province of Mauretania Caesariensis.
Name
The present name is a masculine plural noun, suggesting it may have originally consisted of two or three separate settlements. It seems to a latinization of a Phoenician name including the element rush and a local Berber placename.Religion
Rusubbicari was a Christian bishopric in late antiquity and is a Catholic Church|Catholic] titular see.List of bishops
- At the 411 Carthage conference between Catholic baptists and Donatists of Roman Africa, the town was represented by the Donatist Costanzo as the diocese on that occasion had no Catholic bishops.
- Paolino participated in the synod assembled in Carthage in 484 by the Vandal King Huneric, after which Paolino was exiled.
- José da Silva Chaves
- Victor León Esteban San Miguel y Erce
- Douglas William Young
- Sergio Osvaldo Buenanueva
- Jose Puthenveettil, since August 23, 2013