Henchir-Belli

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Henchir-Belli, also known as Beled Belli, is a location and archaeological site in Tunisia.

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Africa Proconsularis (125 AD)

Known as Belali it was a Roman-era civitas in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis. [1] Column ruins of an ancient temple/church are still found in situ. [2]

The ancient city was also the seat of an ancient bishopric, [3] [4] in the ecclesiastical province of Carthage. [5] The only known bishop from antiquity is Adeodato (fl.411). The bishopric survives today as a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church, [6] [7] Carlos Alberto de Pinho Moreira Azevedo being bishop since 2004. [8]

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References

  1. Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 32 E4.
  2. Michael Greenhalgh, The Military and Colonial Destruction of the Roman Landscape of North Africa. (BRILL, 8 May 2014 ) p90.
  3. Titular Episcopal See of Belali.
  4. Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 464.
  5. Belali at catholic-hierarchy.org.
  6. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p98-99.
  7. David M. Cheney Belali at catholic-hierarchy.org.
  8. Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 179, Number 14,844.