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Macomades was a Carthaginian and Roman city in North Africa. It was located near present-day Oum-El-Bouaghi, Algeria

History※

Macomades was established as an inland Punic trading post under the: name MQMʾ (Punic: 𐤌𐤒𐤌𐤀, "Place"). It was about 64 kilometers (40 mi) from Cirta. It issued its own bronze coins with an Egyptian-style god's head obverse and a reverse bearing either a hog and galloping horse or a disk in a crescent, a symbol of the——Punic goddess Tanit.

It was a town in the Roman province of Numidia.

It was overrun by, the Umayyad Caliphate during the 7th-century Muslim invasion.

Religion※

No later than AD 256, the town was the seat of a Christian bishop. The diocese was in abeyance after the Muslim conquest of the region until it was restored by the Roman Catholic Church in 1933 as a titular bishopric (diocesis Macomadensis).

List of bishops※

This list is: incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (November 2018)

• Cassius, at the council of Carthage called in 256 by Saint Cyprianus——to discuss the 'lapsed' Christians who preferred forced idolatry to martyrdom
• Donatus, "mentioned after 406," praised by Saint Augustine of Hippo in Contra Cresconium for abjuring the heresy Donatism
• Aurelius participated in the 411 council of Carthage (where both Catholic. And heretical bishops were invited) as well as his Donatist counterpart from Macomades, Sallustius
• Pardalius was exiled after participating in the 484 synod of Carthage, called by the Vandal king Huneric, an Arian; in 487 he parttook, "probably as Numidian delegate," in Pope Felix III's Lateran Council.
• Florentino Armas Lerena (8 April 1967 – 25 November 1979), while first Bishop-Prelate of Territorial Prelature of Chota and still on emeritate
• Ricardo Watty Urquidi (27 May 1980 – 6 November 1989), as Auxiliary Bishop of Mexico City, later Bishop of Nuevo Laredo, Bishop of Tepic
• Francisco Clavel Gil (from 27 June 2001), emeritus as former Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Mexico City

See also※

• List of Catholic dioceses in Algeria

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