Cenculiana
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Cenculiana was a Roman era town in [1] [2] Roman North Africa .
Cenculiana, in today's Tunisia, is also the seat of an ancient episcopal see [3] of the Roman province of Byzacena . [4] [5] [6] The Bishop was a suffran of Carthage . [7] Only one bishop of the town is known, the Catholic Ianuarius, who took part in the Council of Carthage (411) , which saw gathered together the Catholics and Donatist bishops from across Africa. When Vandal king Huneric called a synod in 484 the seat appears to be vacant. Today Cenculiana survives as titular bishopric , and the current bishop is Francesco Focardi , Apostolic Vicar of Camiri .
References
- ↑ "Titulare C" . Archived from the original on 2012-10-31 . Retrieved 2016-12-26 .
- ↑ "Cenculiana (Titular See) [ Catholic-Hierarchy ] " .
- ↑ Tables geographiques et chronologiques de tous les archeveschez (1700).
- ↑ Pius Bonifacius Gams , Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae , (Leipzig, 1931), p.465.
- ↑ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana , Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p.135.
- ↑ J.-L. Feuille, v. Cenculiana in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques , vol. XII, (Paris 1953), coll. 135–136.
- ↑ Joseph Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticae: Or, The Antiquities of the Christian Church (William Straker and J. H. Parker, 1840 ) p230.