• The diocese of Leptis Magna was an ancient bishopric in Africa with its episcopal see in Leptis Magna, modern Al-Khums in Libya. After the Muslim conquest...
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  • Diocese of Boreum, Diocese of Cyrene, Diocese of Dystis, Diocese of Erythrum, Diocese of Gergis, Diocese of Gigthi, Diocese of Leptis Magna, Diocese of...
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    Oea (redirect from Diocese of Oëa)
    under the Severan dynasty in nearby Leptis Magna. The city was conquered by the Rashidun Caliphate with the spread of Islam in the 7th century and came...
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    western Libya was established as a province under the name of Tripolitania with Leptis Magna capital and the major trading port in the region. In 96 BC...
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    Hermann Schäufele (category Grand Crosses with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany)
    2000 priests. His titular bishopric was the diocese of Leptis Magna. After the death of the Archbishop of Freiburg, Schäufele was appointed by Pope Pius...
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    "Lesser Leptis" to distinguish it from the "Greater Leptis" in what is now Libya. Leptis was located on the Gulf of Hammamet, the classical Gulf of Neapolis...
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    site of Utica, Tunisia Fountain in the form of turtle 3 Ancient Rome portal Caesarea Cirta Thamugadi Lambaesis Thysdrus Volubilis Leptis Magna Carthago...
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    of Tripoli or Tripolitania derives from the Greek name Τρίπολις "three cities", referring to Oea, Sabratha and Leptis Magna. Oea was the only one of the...
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  • and of the Ancient and Holy Titular Metropolis of Numedia in Algeria and Morocco that includes the Titular and Holy Suffragan dioceses of Leptis Parva...
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    Tripolitania (Roman province) (category History of Tripolitania)
    meaning "region of the three cities", referring to Oea (modern Tripoli of Libya), Sabratha and Leptis Magna. Following the defeat of Carthage in the Punic...
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  • Leptis Magna Sabratha Cyrene Tadrart Acacus Ghadames The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites...
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    promoted to the counselor of nunciature on 8 March 1989. On 10 November 1998, he was elected Titular Archbishop of Leptis Magna, and at the same time named...
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  • John Buckley (bishop) (category Alumni of St Patrick's College, Maynooth)
    parish priest of Turners Cross parish, Cork. Buckley was appointed auxiliary bishop of Cork and Ross and titular bishop of Leptis Magna by Pope John Paul...
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    Dux (category Military ranks of ancient Rome)
    duces within the dioceses; when the vicarius called the legions of the dioceses into action, all of the legions were at the command of the dux.[citation...
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    Basilica (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of September 2024)
    Volubilis, principal city of Mauretania Tingitana, a basilica modelled on Leptis Magna's was completed during the short reign of Macrinus. Basilica Porcia:...
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  • Arabia after Diocletian was a part of the Diocese of the East, which was part of the Praetorian prefecture of the East and was largely Christian. The province...
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    Libya (redirect from Republic of Libya)
    part of the Africa Nova province, Tripolitania was prosperous, and reached a golden age in the 2nd and 3rd centuries, when the city of Leptis Magna, home...
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    Fronto of Cirta, the jurist Salvius Julianus of Hadrumetum, the novelist Apuleius of Madauros, the emperor Septimius Severus of Leptis Magna, the Christians...
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  • Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles is called Diocesis Angelorum in Latin, "Diocese of (the) angels". On the other hand, in some dioceses the church chose...
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    Administrator Wilhelm Pluta (1910–1986), Bishop of the titulature of Leptis Magna, serving as administrator until 1972. After Polzin's death the Schneidemühl...
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    governor of the Diocese of Africa. He consequently controlled the source of most of Italy's grain, and he supplied food only in the interests of Honorius's...
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  • Leontium Leontopolis in Augustamnica Leontopolis in Pamphylia Leptiminus Leptis Magna Lerus Lesina Lestrona Lesvi Lete Letopolis Leucas Leuce Liberalia Libertina...
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    history of the Roman Empire covers the history of ancient Rome from the traditional end of the Roman Republic in 27 BC until the abdication of Romulus...
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    headed by the new post of magister militum Africae, with a subordinate magister peditum and four regional frontier commands (Leptis Magna for Tripolitania,...
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    John (2010). "Magna Carta, the ius commune, and English Common Law". In Senderowitz Loengard, Janet (ed.). Magna Carta and the England of King John. London:...
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  • provinces of the empire (c. 100 in total), organised according to the twelve newly created regional groupings called dioceses. Although the dioceses are presented...
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    Venetia et Histria (category History of Venice)
    northeast of Roman Italy. It was originally created by Augustus as the tenth regio in 7 AD alongside the nine other regiones. The region had been one of the...
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    creation of a new administrative level, the diocese. The dioceses, initially twelve, grouped several provinces, each with its own governor. The dioceses were...
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    priest) in charge of an apostolic prefecture, a type of Roman Catholic territorial jurisdiction fulfilling the functions of a diocese, usually in a missionary...
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    Praetorian Guard (category Military units and formations of the Roman Empire)
    territories (prefectures) comprising Roman dioceses (geographical subdivisions of the Roman Empire) in the name of the Emperor. The Praetorian Cohorts were...
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