title: Rusubbicari
text: # Rusubbicari
  
  Rusubbicari was a Phoenician and Carthaginian colony and Roman town. It has been tentatively identified with ruins at Zemmouri El Bahri, Algeria. The Roman town was in the province of Mauretania Caesariensis.
  
  ## Name
  
  The present name is a masculine plural noun, suggesting it may have originally consisted of two or three separate settlements. It seems to a latinization of a Phoenician name including the element rush (Punic: 𐤓‬𐤀𐤔‬, RʾŠ, "cape") and a local Berber placename.
  
  ## Religion
  
  Rusubbicari was a Christian bishopric in late antiquity and is a Catholic titular see (Latin: Dioecesis Rusubbicarensis).
  
  ### List of bishops
  
  * At the 411 Carthage conference between Catholic baptists and Donatists of Roman Africa, the town was represented by the Donatist Costanzo as the diocese on that occasion had no Catholic bishops.
  * Paolino participated in the synod assembled in Carthage in 484 by the Vandal King Huneric, after which Paolino was exiled.
  * José da Silva Chaves (November 29, 1967 – May 14, 1976 appointed bishop of Uruaç)
  * Victor León Esteban San Miguel y Erce (May 31, 1976 – April 4, 1995 deceased)
  * Douglas William Young (14 April 2000 – 17 July 2006 appointed Archbishop of Mount Hagen)
  * Sergio Osvaldo Buenanueva (July 16, 2008 – May 31, 2013 appointed bishop of San Francisco)
  * Jose Puthenveettil, since August 23, 2013
  
  Today Rusubbicari survives as a titular bishopric holder; The current bishop is Jose Puthenveettil, auxiliary bishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly.
  
  