Selendeta

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Selendeta was an ancient civitas of the Roman Province of Byzacena during the Roman Empire and late antiquity. The exact location of the town is unknown [1] but it was somewhere in southern Tunisia.

The town was also the seat of an ancient bishopric which survives today as a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church. [2] The current bishop is Grzegorz Balcerek. [3]

The only known bishop of this diocese is the Donatist Vittorio who participated in the Carthage conference of 411. Today Selendeta survives as a titular bishop's seat; the current titular bishop is Grzegorz Balcerek, auxiliary bishop of Poznań. [4]

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References

  1. Titular Episcopal See of Selendeta at GCatholic.org.
  2. Selendeta, at Catholicheiracy.org.
  3. Titular Episcopal See of Selendeta at GCatholic.org.
  4. J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912), p. 220