Bordj-Bou-Djadi

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Bordj-Bou-Djadi is an archaeological site and former Catholic diocese located on the outskirts of Tunis, Tunisia. The area is situated near Ucres, at 36.901123n, 9.97083e. It is now a Latin Catholic titular see.

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History

extract of the Tabula Peutingeriana showing Roman Ucres, Roman North Africa, during 4th century. Carthage Tabula Peutingeriana 2.png
extract of the Tabula Peutingeriana showing Roman Ucres, Roman North Africa, during 4th century.

The stone ruins at Bordj-Bou-Djadi have been tentatively identified with the RomanBerber town of Ucres, a civitas of the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis, important enough to become one of the many suffragans of Carthage, the Metropolitan at its capital. [1] [2] It flourished from 30BC until around 640AD.

Several of its bishops are known from antiquity: [3]

Titular see

The ancient diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church, [4] as Ucres (Latin and Curiate Italian) / Ucren(sis) (Latin adjective)/

It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank:

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References

  1. Titular Episcopal See of Ucres
  2. Ucres.
  3. Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 172, Number 14,448
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