Ubaza
Ubaza was an ancient city and bishopric in Roman North Africa, which remains a Latin titular see.
History
Ubaza was among the many towns in the Roman province of Numidia that were important enough to become a suffragan bishopric, but faded. Its present location is in modern Terrebaza, Algeria.Its only recorded residential bishops both attended the council called in 484 at Carthage by Huneric of the Vandal Kingdom :
The diocese was nominally restored in 1928 as Latin titular bishopric of Ubaza / Ubazen.
It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal rank:
- Aston Sebastian Joseph Chichester, Jesuits as last Apostolic Vicar of Salisbury , later first Metropolitan Archbishop of Salisbury , emeritate as Titular Archbishop of Velebusdus
- Patrick H. Cronin, Columban Missionaries as Bishop-Prelate of Territorial Prelature of Ozamis ; later Metropolitan Archbishop of Cagayan de Oro , died 1991
- Eduardo Herrera Riera as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Barquisimeto ; previously Titular Bishop of Sesta as Auxiliary Bishop of Cumaná , Bishop of Guanare ; later Bishop of Carora , died 2012
- Francis Xavier Irwin, emeritus as former auxiliary bishop of Archdiocese of Boston, no previous prelature.
Other uses
- a fraction of Moniquirá, a town and municipality in Boyacá Department, part of the subregion of the Ricaurte Province, Colombia