Editing Lambaesis (section)

== Ecclesiastical history ==
Lambaesis was an episcopal see during late Ancient times as part of the [[Roman province]] of [[Numidia]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Frend|first=W.H.C.|title=The Rise of Christianity|year=1984|publisher=Fortress Press|isbn=0-8006-1931-5|page=313|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8-6tv70jqk8C&q=Bishop+of+Lambaesis&pg=PA1008}}</ref> For such an important town, its bishopric is surprisingly absent from the historical record. Lambaesis did not send a representative to the [[First Council of Nicaea|Council of Nicaea]]<ref>Heinrich Gelzer, Patrum Nicaenorum nomina Latine, Graece, Coptice, Syriace, Arabice, Armeniace.   (In aedibus B.G. Teubneri, 1995 ).</ref> nor [[Council of Chalcedon|Chalcedon]]<ref>Richard Price, Michael Gaddis, The Acts of the [[Council of Chalcedon]], Volume 1 (Liverpool University Press, 2005).</ref> and is not mentioned by LeQuinn .<ref>Michel Lequien,  ''Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus', Paris 1740, Volume I.</ref>
 
Saint [[Cyprian]] mentions a [[heretic]] [[bishop]] of Lambaesis who was condemned by a local [[synod]] of bishops around the year 240.<ref>Dictionnaire d’Archeologie Chretienne et de Liturgie, volume 8 columns 1067-1075</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Burns|first=J. Patout|title=Cyprian the Bishop|year=2002|publisher=Routledge|location=London|isbn=0415238498|pages=106–108|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=egbXJlUgAW8C&q=Januarius+of+Lambaesis&pg=PA107}}</ref>

=== Titular see ===
The extinct diocese was nominally restored as a [[titular bishopric]]. Initially revived as Lambaisis, it was renamed Lambaesis in 1925.

It has had the following incumbents, of the lowest (episcopal) rank :
* Jan Dembowski (1759.09.24 – 1790)
* Hieronim Stojnowski (Stroynowski) (1804.08.20 – 1814.09.26)
* Mateo José González Rubio (1836.02.01 – 1845.06.15)
* Eduardo Vásquez, [[Dominican Order]] (O.P.) (1853.12.30 – 1856.12.12)
* Thomas O’Callaghan, O.P. (1884.06.29 – 1886.12.03)
* Jean-Marie-Michel Blois (衛忠藩), [[Paris Foreign Missions Society]] (M.E.P.) (1921.12.29 – 1946.04.11), as Apostolic Vicar of [[Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Manchuria|Southern Manchuria]] 南滿 (China) (1921.12.19 – 1924.12.03) and as Apostolic Vicar of [[Apostolic Vicariate of Shenyang|Shenyang]] 瀋陽 (China) (1924.12.03 – 1946.04.11), later promoted first Metropolitan Archbishop of Shenyang 瀋陽 (China) (1946.04.11 – 1946.05.18)
* James Moynagh, S.P.S. (1947.06.12 – 1950.04.18)
* Vincenzo Maria Jacono (1950.09.08 – 1955.02.02)
* Thomas Edward Gill (1956.04.11 – 1973.11.11)
* [[John Stephen Cummins]] (1974.02.26 – 1977.05.03)
* John Joseph Paul (1977.05.17 – 1983.10.14)
* Cardinal [[Marian Jaworski]] (1984.05.21 – 1991.01.16), while [[Apostolic Administrator]] of [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv|Lviv]] (Ukraine) (1984.05.21 – 1991.01.16), later Metropolitan Archbishop of the same Lviv (Ukraine) (1991.01.16 – 2008.10.21), President of Episcopal Conference of Ukraine (1994 – 2008.10.21), Apostolic Administrator of Lutsk (Ukraine) (1996 – 1998.03.25), [[Cardinal-Priest]] of S. Sisto (2001.02.21 [2001.05.20] – ...)
* [[Michel Pierre Marie Mouïsse]] (2000.03.10 – 2004.03.05)
* Carlo Roberto Maria Redaelli (2004.04.08 – 2012.06.28), (later Archbishop)
* David Prescott Talley (2013.01.03 – 2016.09.21), [[Auxiliary Bishop]] of [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta|Atlanta]] (USA)
* Marc Pelchat (2016.10.25 – ...), Auxiliary Bishop of [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Québec|Québec]] (Canada)