Thucca in Numidia
Thucca in Numidia was an Ancient Roman era town and the seat of an ancient Bishopric during the Roman Empire, which remains only as a Latin Catholic titular see.
History
The city in the Roman province of Numidia, and has been tentatively identified with ruins at modern Henchir-El-Abiodh, present Algeria, was important to become one of its many suffragan dioceses, in the papal sway, yet was destined to fade.Two of its residential Bishops are historically documented :
- Saturninus, recorded in 255
- Sabinus, in 411
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin titular bishopric Thucca in Numidia / Tucca di Numidia / Thuccen in Numidia.It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting Episcopal rank with an Eastern Catholic and an archiepiscopal exception:
- Juan Vicente Solís Fernández as emeritate, formerly Bishop of Alajuela
- Federico Richter Fernandez-Prada, Friars Minor as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Piura Titular Archbishop: Federico Richter Fernandez-Prada, O.F.M. as Coadjutor Archbishop of Ayacucho, later succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Ayacucho, died 2011
- Jean-Baptiste Tiendrebeogo as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Ouagadougou, later Bishop of Kaya Joseph Perumthotttam as Auxiliary Bishop of Changanacherry of the Syro-Malabars, later succeeding as Metropolitan Archeparch of Changanacherry of the Syro-Malabars
- Liro Vendelino Meurer as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Passo Fundo ; later Bishop of Santo Ângelo
- Bishop-elect Martin David, Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Ostrava–Opava, no previous prelature.