Bida (North Africa)

Detail of the Tabula Peutingeriana map (1-4th century CE ; facsimile edition by Conradi Millieri, 1887/1888) centered on Bida

Bida is a former Ancient city and bishopric in Roman Africa, now a Latin Catholic titular see.

Its presumed location are the ruins at present Djemaa Sahridj in modern Algeria.

History

The city was important enough in the Roman province of Numidia to become a suffragan bishopric of its capital's Metropolitan Archbishop, but was to fade. Campanus represented Bida at the Council of Carthage in 424AD.

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored as a Latin Catholic titular bishopric in the 17th century as Bitha or Bita, renamed Bida in 1923-25.

Franz Rudolf Bornewasser
Aloysius J. Willinger

It has had the following incumbents, all of the lowest (episcopal) rank :

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