Giru Marcelli

Giru Marcelli was a city and bishopric in Roman North Africa, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.

History

Giru Marcelli, located in present Algeria, was among the many town in the Roman province of Numidia which were important enough to become a suffragan diocese in the papal sway, but faded completely.

Its only historically documented bishop was Fructuosus, who participated in the synod called at Carthage by Hunerik of the Vandal Kingdom in 484, whereafter he was exiled, like most Catholic incumbents, unlike their Donatist heretic counterparts.

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Titular bishopric of Giru Marcelli (Latin) / Giru di Marcello (Curiate Italian) / de Giru Marcelli (Latin adjective).

It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank, with an archiepiscopal exception:

See also
Bibliography
  • Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 466
  • Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, pp. 172–173
  • J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, Paris 1912, pp. 415–416
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