Thucca in Numidia


Thucca in Numidia was an Ancient Roman era town and the seat of an ancient Bishopric during the Roman Empire, which remains only as a Latin Catholic titular see.

History

The city in the Roman province of Numidia, and has been tentatively identified with ruins at modern Henchir-El-Abiodh, present Algeria, was important to become one of its many suffragan dioceses, in the papal sway, yet was destined to fade.
Two of its residential Bishops are historically documented :
The city and bishopric lasted till the 7th century Muslim conquest of the Maghreb, today it is incorporated into northern Algeria.

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin titular bishopric Thucca in Numidia / Tucca di Numidia / Thuccen in Numidia.
It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting Episcopal rank with an Eastern Catholic and an archiepiscopal exception :