Rusippisir
Rusippisir is located in Algeria Rusippisir Shown within Algeria | |
| Location | Taksebt, Tizi Ouzou Province, Algeria |
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| Coordinates | 36°54′03.4′′N 4°09′34.5′′E / 36.900944°N 4.159583°E / 36.900944; 4.159583 |
Rusippisir was a Phoenician, Carthaginian, and Roman town on Algeria's Mediterranean coast at the site of present-day Taksebt.
Name
[edit ]Rusippisir is the latinization of the town's Punic name, which probably meant "Cape Rosemary".[1]
Geography
[edit ]Rusippisir was located at Cape Tedless (French: Cap Tedles), Algeria,[1] the site of present-day Taksebt in Tizi Ouzou.
History
[edit ]Rusippisir was established as a colony on the trade route between Phoenicia and the Strait of Gibraltar. Its port was nearby Iomnium (present-day Tigzirt). It later fell under Carthaginian and then, after the Punic Wars, Roman hegemony. Punic steles in Rusippisir continued to be produced well into the imperial period and there was tophet in the town.[1]
Religion
[edit ]In antiquity, Rusippisir was the site of a Christian bishopric. This was revived in the 20th century as a Catholic titular see (Latin: Dioecesis Rusubisiritana; Italian: Rusibisir).[2] [3]
List of bishops
[edit ]- Léon-Théobald Delaere, OFM Cap (1967年08月03日 – 1976年09月14日)
- Theodore Edgar McCarrick (1977年05月24日 – 1981年11月19日)
- Ivan Dias (1982年05月08日 – 1996年11月08日)
- Daniel Caro Borda (2000年07月21日 – 2003年08月06日)
- Martin David Holley (2004年05月18日 – 2016年10月19日)
- Mark E. Brennan (2017年01月19日 - present)
References
[edit ]Citations
[edit ]- ^ a b c Lipiński (2004), p. 397–9.
- ^ "Rusibisir", GigaCatholic .
- ^ "Rusibisir", Catholic Hierarchy .
Bibliography
[edit ]- Lipiński, Edward (2004), Itineraria Phoenicia, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, No. 127, Studia Phoenicia, Vol. XVIII, Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters, ISBN 9789042913448 .
