Aquae in Byzacena

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The Diocese of Aquensis in Byzacena is a home suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church. [1]

The diocese was centered on Aquensis a civitas of the Roman province of Byzacena, which is tentatively identified with El Hamma in modern Tunisia. [2]

Mesnage, [3] attributes two bishops:

However, Morcelli, [4] identifies only one bishop of this diocese – Vittoriano, who participated for the Catholic side, in the Council of Carthage (411).

Today Aquensis in Byzacena survives as titular bishopric [5] [6] [7] and the current bishop is Nicolai Dubinin, O.F.M.Conv, Auxiliary Bishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Moscow. [8]

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References

  1. Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p.464.
  2. Titular Episcopal See of Aquæ in Byzacena, atGCatholic.org.
  3. J. Mesnage L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912), p. 179.
  4. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I (Brescia, 1816), pp. 79–80.
  5. Aquae in Byzacena, at catholic-hierarchy.org.
  6. Titular Episcopal See of Aquæ in Byzacena, atGCatholic.org.
  7. Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN   978-88-209-9070-1)
  8. Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 222, Number 18,376.