Bida (North Africa)


Bida is a former Ancient city and bishopric in Roman Africa, now a Latin Catholic titular see.
Its presumed location are the ruins at present Djemaa Sahridj in modern Algeria.

History

The city was important enough in the Roman province of Numidia to become a suffragan bishopric of its capital's Metropolitan Archbishop, but was to fade. Campanus represented Bida at the Council of Carthage.

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored as a Latin Catholic titular bishopric in the 17th century as Bitha or Bita, renamed Bida in 1923–25.
It has had the following incumbents, all of the lowest rank :