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Macomades

Macomades was established as an inland Punic trading post under the name MQMʾ (Punic: 𐤌𐤒𐤌𐤀,^[1] "Place"). It was about 64 kilometers (40 mi) from Cirta.^[1] 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.^[1]

It was a town in the Roman provinceofNumidia.

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

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).^[2]

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• Cassius, at the council of Carthage called in 256 by Saint Cyprianus to discuss the 'lapsed' Christians who preferred forced idolatrytomartyrdom
• Donatus, mentioned after 406, praised by Saint Augustine of HippoinContra 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-PrelateofTerritorial Prelature of Chota and still on emeritate
• Ricardo Watty Urquidi (27 May 1980 – 6 November 1989), as Auxiliary BishopofMexico 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

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