Vageata, also known as Vageatensis, [1] was a Roman- Berber town in the province of Mauretania Caesariensis. [2] It is also known as Bagatensis, [3] and epigraphical evidence remains attesting to this etymology, [4] [5] [6] due to the interchange of 'v' for 'b' is a common phenomenon in Latin and Greek place names.
The city has been identified with ruins at El-Haria, located east of Cirta en route to Thibilis. [7] It was mentioned by Optatus of Milevis, in Numidia. [8]
Bishopric
The city was also a seat of an ancient bishopric though only two bishops are known to history. Donatus of Vageaensis was known from the Council of Carthage (411). [9] [10]
Fulgentius (Catholic bishop) fl.484 was exiled by Vandal king Huneric in 484AD. Richard Oliver Gerow of Natchez-Jackson was bishop in the 1970s. Long-term bishop Franz Xaver Schwarzenböck(1972-2010) [11] was then succeeded by Wieslaw Szlachetka, who has been bishop since December 21, 2013. [12]
References
- ^ Historical-Portable Dictionary of Ancient and Modern Sacred Geography, 1759 p733.
- ^ Vageatensis
- ^ Leslie Dossey, Peasant and Empire in Christian North Africa (University of California Press, 2010) p205.
- ^ Jesper Carlsen, Vilici and Roman Estate Managers Until AD 284, Part 284 (L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER, 1995) p81-82.
- ^ Leslie Dossey, Peasant and Empire in Christian North Africa (University of California Press, 2010) p205.
- ^ Epigraphic Text Database.
- ^ Brent D. Shaw, Sacred Violence: African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine. (Cambridge University Press, 2011) page xvi.
- ^ Saints Zeno and Optatus, the first at Verona, the works of all the bishops of the other Milevi: Cui accessit - The history of the Donatists, the Bishops of Africa, together with the tombs that belong to it and geography (Vrayet, 1845).
- ^ Jean Louis Maier, The Episcopate of Roman, Vandal and Byzantine Africa (Swiss Institute of Rome, 1973) p301.
- ^ Antoine-Augustin Bruzen from La Martinière , THE GREAT GEOGRAPHIC AND CRITICAL DICTIONARY, Volume 9 (1739).
- ^ Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 204, Necrology
- ^ Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 217, Number 18,066.