Sicilibba

Last updated

Sicilibba was an ancient Roman town of the Roman province of proconsular Africa. The ancient town is tentatively identifiable with the ruins at Alaouine (or Alaouenine) in today's Tunisia.

Sicilibba was also the seat of an ancient Christian bishopric, [1] suffraged by the Archdiocese of Carthage. [2] There are four known (ancient) bishops of Sicilibba.

To these bishops, Morcelli adds the donatist Honorius, mentioned in 337. [3] However, According to Mesnage, it would not be the name of a bishop but of the adjective honoratum jugulum that is present in the text on which Morcelli leans. In that case it is to merely identify the Honored Bishop. [4]

Today Sicilibba survives only as a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church, The current bishop is Christoph Hegge, auxiliary bishop of Münster.

Known bishops

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Assuras</span>

Assuras, sometimes given as Assura or Assur, was a town in the Roman province of Proconsular Africa.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Aquae Regiae</span>

Aquae Regiae was a Roman town in the Roman province of Byzacena, during the Roman Empire and into late antiquity. The Latin adjective referring to it is Aquaregiensis.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Abitinae</span> Archaeological site in Tunisia

Abitinae was a town in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis and is famed for the Martyrs of Abitinae.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Segermes</span>

Segermes is an ancient town in Tunisia. Under the Roman Empire, the town belonged to the province of Byzacena. The town is identified with ruins at Henchir Harat, Zaghouan.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bir El Hafey</span> Commune and town in Sidi Bouzid Governorate, Tunisia

Bir El Hafey is a town and commune located at 34°55′48″N 9°12′00″E in the Sidi Bouzid Governorate, in Tunisia. As of 2004 it had a population of 6,405.

Musti in Numidia, also called Musti Numidiae, was an ancient city and bishop jurisdiction (bishopric), and is presently a Catholic titular see,(bishop's government see of a former government under a church's responsibility, also known as a dead diocese.) in modern Algeria.

Nicives, identifiable with N'Gaous in Batna Province, Algeria, was an ancient Roman town of the Roman province of Numidia.

Cellae in Proconsulari was an ancient city and bishopric in Roman Africa, which remains a Latin titular see.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Medeli</span> Ancient Roman & Berber town in Tunesia

Medeli was an ancient Roman–Berber civitas of the Roman Province of Africa Proconsularis in Tunisia. It has been tentatively identified with Henchir-Mencoub and lasted through the Roman, Vandal and Byzantine empires.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Saia Maior</span>

Saia Maior also known as Saia Maggiore was a Roman era civitas of the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis.

Theudalis, also known as Teudali, was a Roman era civitas (town) of the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis. The ancient city is tentatively identifiable with ruins at Henchir-Aouam in Tunisia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lapda</span>

Lapda, was a civitas (town) of the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis. Its exact location is now lost to history, though probably somewhere in central modern Tunisia. Also known as Labdia.

Henchir-Khachoum is a locality and series of archaeological sites in Sidi Bouzid Governorate modern Tunisia. The ruins are strewn along a tributary of the Oued El Hatech river east of Sbeitla. During the Roman Empire there was a Roman town of the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis, called Muzuca, one of two North African towns to bare that name.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Migirpa</span>

Migirpa was an ancient Roman-Berber civitas in the province of Africa Proconsularis. It flourished from 30 BCE to 640 CE. The town is identified as stone ruins near Carthage, Tunisia.

Cediae (Cediæ) was an ancient city and former bishopric in Roman North Africa. It is now a Latin Catholic titular see.

Baia was an ancient city and bishopric in the Roman province of Africa Proconsulare. It is now a Roman Catholic titular see.

Cilibia was an Ancient city and bishopric in Roman North Africa, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.

Rusubbicari was a Phoenician and Carthaginian colony and Roman town. It has been tentatively identified with ruins at Zemmouri El Bahri, Algeria. The Roman town was in the province of Mauretania Caesariensis.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Marazanae</span>

Marazanae was a Roman town of the Roman province of Byzacena during the Roman Empire and into late antiquity.

The Diocese of Vittoriana is a suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.

References

  1. Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 468.
  2. La Sicilibba at www.gcatholic.org
  3. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), pp. 278–279
  4. J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912), pp. 24–25.
  5. La sede Sicilibba at www.catholic-hierarchy.org