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.

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References

  1. "Titulare C". Archived from the original on 2012-10-31. Retrieved 2016-12-26.
  2. "Cenculiana (Titular See) [Catholic-Hierarchy]".
  3. Tables geographiques et chronologiques de tous les archeveschez(1700).
  4. Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p.465.
  5. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p.135.
  6. J.-L. Feuille, v. Cenculiana in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. XII, (Paris 1953), coll. 135–136.
  7. Joseph Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticae: Or, The Antiquities of the Christian Church (William Straker and J. H. Parker, 1840 ) p230.