Timici was a Phoenician, Numidian, and Roman town located in present-day Ain Matboul, Algeria (between Sidi M'hamed Ben Ali and Taougrit).
Name
Timici is a Latinization of the town's Punic name ().
Timici means fire in Tamazight.
History Timici minted its own bronze coins with Punic legends.
Under the Romans, Timici was a native town () in the province of Mauretania Caesariensis.Timici at gcatholic.org.
The town was previously identified with the ruins at Aïn Témouchent,, including "Plan de Timici Colonia (Aïn Temouchent)". which were actually the remnants of Roman Albulae.
Religion Timici was the seat of a Christian bishop in antiquity. Three of them appear in the surviving historical record. The title fell into abeyance during the Islamic conquest of the Maghreb but was revived as a Roman Catholic titular see () in the 20th century.Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig, (1931), p. 469.Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 325.
List of bishops
Vitorre a Catholic bishop who represented the town at the Council of Carthage (411), which heard the dispute between Catholic and Donatists. The Donatist Optato was Vittores' counterpart at the conference. Honorius participated in the synod assembled in Carthage in 484 by King Huneric of the Vandal Kingdom, after the synod Honorius was exiled. Fernando Ariztía Ruiz (1967–1976) Ramón Darío Molina Jaramillo (1977–1984) Toribio Ticona Porco (1986–1992) Francisco Cases Andreu (1994–1996) John Forrosuelo Du (1997–2001)Timici at gcatholic.org. Donald George Sproxton (2001–current), Perth's auxiliary bishop.Entry titolare at catholic-hierarchy.org.
References Citations
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