Collo

Collo (Tamazight:ⴰⵍⵇⵍ) (Arabic: القل‎) was an ancient Roman–Berber city in the northern Skikda Province, Algeria. It was the capital and one of three municipalities of Collo District, and a Catholic titular episcopal see under its Roman name Chullu'. In 1998, it had a population of 27,800.[1]

Collo

القل
City and Common
Collo
Location in Skikda Province
Collo
Location in Algeria
Coordinates: 37°0′20″N 6°33′37″E
Country Algeria
ProvinceSkikda
DistrictCollo
APC2012–2017
Government
 • TypeMunicipality
Area
 • Total9 sq mi (24 km2)
Population
 (2008)
 • Total35,682
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
ISO 3166 codeCP

History

In Roman times, Collo was a city in the province of Numidia, called Chullu. At the joint Conference of Carthage (411) that brought together Catholic and Donatist bishops of Roman Africa, Chullu was represented by the Catholic bishop Victor and the Donatist Fidentius. In 484, Quidvultdeus was one of the Catholic bishops that the Arian Vandal king Huneric summoned to Carthage in 484 and then exiled. Bishop Aurelius of 256 is assigned to this diocese by 19th-century Morcelli, but to Cillium (modern Kasserine) by 20th-century Berthier and Mesnage.[2][3][4]

In 1282, king Peter III of Aragon led an expedition to Collo, in proclaimed support of a rebellion against the ruler of Tunis. The rebellion had collapsed before Peter arrived, but he kept his army there for several weeks until, in the wake of the Sicilian Vespers, envoys from Sicily came to Collo to offer him its throne. The resulting war continued until 1301.

Historical population[1]
YearPopulation
19013,300
19547,000
196610,800
198721,100
199827,800

Titular bishopric

In 1833, the Roman diocese was nominally revived as a titular see of the lowest (episcopal) rank. So far, it had four incumbents:

  • Marc Lacroix, O.M.I. (1968.10.25 – 1970.11.24)
  • Joseph Edra Ukpo (later Archbishop) (1971.04.24 – 1973.03.01)
  • Franco Mulakkal (2009.01.17 – 2013.06.13)
  • Varghese Thottamkara, Lazarists (C.M.) (2013.06.28 – present)

See also

References
  1. populstat.info Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
  2. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 149
  3. A. Berthier, v. Cullu in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. XIII, Parigi 1956, coll. 1103–1104
  4. J. Mesnage L'Afrique chrétienne, Paris 1912, pp. 274–275


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