Lapda

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Lapda, was a civitas (town) of the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis. [1] [2] Its exact location is now lost to history, though probably somewhere in central modern Tunisia. Also known as Labdia. [3] [4]

Lapda was also the seat of an ancient Christian episcopal see, [5] [6] suffragan to the Archdiocese of Carthage. [7] [8]

There are three bishops of antiquity mentioned by the historical sources.

Today [9] Lapda survives as a titular bishopric and the current bishop is José Mauricio Vélez García, of Medellín.

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References

  1. Lapda at catholic-hierarchy.org.
  2. Joseph Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticæ, Volume 2 (William Straker, 1834) p441.
  3. Joseph Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticæ, Volume 2 (William Straker, 1834) p446.
  4. Joseph Bingham, The works of the learned Joseph Bingham, M.A. (Robert Knaplock, 1726 ) p412.
  5. Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 466.
  6. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), pp. 193–194.
  7. Lapda at catholic-hierarchy.org.
  8. Joseph Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticæ, Volume 2 (William Straker, 1834) p441.
  9. David Cheney, Diocese of Lapda, at Catholic-Hierarchy.org.