Mila, Algeria

Milevum ( Italian: Mideo ) - ( also Mileve / Meleu ) is a titular of the Roman Catholic Church.

It goes back to a former bishop's seat in with the old town, (now called Mila ), in Numidia, north-west of Constantine, Algeria).

Mileve already at least since the 3rd century was the seat of Christian bishops, with the time of Donatism partially resided both a bishop of the Donatists as well as one of the Catholics in the city. The most important owner of the episcopal see was the Holy Opatus of Mileve that there even acted as Bishop in the last decades of the 4th century.

Faustus of Mileve, which plays a significant role in the history of Western Manichaeism, was born in Mileve, but was never bishop of that city.

In the 9th century disappear under the pressure of Islam, the last vestiges of Christianity, since the High Middle Ages, the seat is only awarded more than titular.

Among the titular bishops of earlier centuries is mainly Nicolas Bonet (also Nicolaus Bonetus ), Franciscans ( OFM ), the famous missionary to China and participants of the embassy of Pope Benedict XII. to mention to Kublai Khan, who was honored after his return in 1346 with the Titularbischofsitz of Mileve. (Spanish products in Enciclopedia Catolica )