Muzuca was a Roman Town of the Roman province of Byzacena during late antiquity. [1] The town has tentatively been identified with the ruins at Henchir-Besra in modern Tunisia. [2] [3] Very little is known of the city, [4] though in situ epigraphical evidence gives us the name and that in late antiquity it achieved the status of Municipium. [5]
Muzuca was also the seat of an ancient episcopal see of the Roman Catholic Church, [6] survives as a titular bishopric. [7]
There are three bishops attributable to this African diocese. [8] [9]
The Catholic Restituto and the Donatist Idassio took part in the Carthage conference of 411, which brought together the Catholic and Donatist bishops of Roman Africa. [10]
Innocent attended the synod gathered in Carthage by the Vandal king of Hunaric in 484, after which he was exiled.
Today Muzuca di Bizacena survives as a titular bishop's seat; the current titular bishop is Luka Sylvester Gopep.