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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