Culusi

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Culusi was a Roman town of the Roman province of Africa Proconsolare, [1] located near Carthage. It is also known as Culcitana or Culsitana. [2] The city is tentatively identified with ruins in the suburbs of Tunisia. [3]

Culusi was also the seat of an ancient Christian bishopric, [4] [5] through the Roman Empire and into late antiquity, a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Carthage. Today Culusi survives as a titular bishopric [6] and the current bishop is Asztrik Várszegi, of Pannonhalma. [7]

Known bishops

Today Culusi survives as a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church and the current bishop is Asztrik Várszegi, of Pannonhalma.

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References

  1. J. Ferron, v. Culusitana in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. XIII, Paris, 1956, coll. 1105–1106.
  2. Erika Hermanowicz, Possidius of Calama (OUP Oxford, 2008) p.204
  3. Titular Episcopal See of Culusi [ permanent dead link ] at GCatholic.org.
  4. Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p.465.
  5. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 148.
  6. David Cheney, Diocese of Culusi at Catholic-Hierarchy.org.
  7. Titular Episcopal See of Culusi [ permanent dead link ] at GCatholic.org.