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Roman Empire - Mauretania Caesariensis (125 AD).
Giru Mons is an
ancient
town of the
Roman Empire and a
titular bishopric of the
Roman Catholic Church.
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[2]
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[4] The ancient town has been tentatively identified with ruins at Yerroum, northern Algeria.
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Giru Mons (Latin: Diocesis Girumontensis) was
the capital of a historic
diocese in the
Roman province of
Mauretania Caesariensis,
[6]
[7] which ceased to function in the 7th century during the
Islamic expansion, into northern
Algeria. The only known
ancient
bishop of this diocese is Reparatus, who took part in the
synod assembled in Carthage in 484 by King
Huneric of the
Vandal Kingdom, after which Reparatus was exiled. At present the Catholic
bishops are
titular.
[8]
Known bishops
References
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^ Joseph Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticae; Or the Antiquities of the Christian Church, Volume 3. (Straker, 1843 ) p232.
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Dictionarium ... ex alijs eiusdem autoris commentarijs: tum ex lexico Latino (1561).
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^
Pius Bonifacius Gams,
Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 466.
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^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli,
Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 173.
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Giru Mons, at www.gcatholic.org
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Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013,
ISBN
978-88-209-9070-1), "Sedi titolari", pp. 819-1013
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La sede titolare nel sito di www.catholic-hierarchy.org.
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Bishops Titulas Giru Mons at GCatholic.org.