Turuzi

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Turuzi was an ancient city situated in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis. Its exact location is now lost to history, but it was somewhere in northern Tunisia. [1]

The town was the seat of an ancient Christian bishopric. [2] At the Council of Carthage [ clarification needed ], Habetdeum a Donatist leader spoke of the Bishopric at Turuzi saying "we do have a bishop there, one Cattus", to which the Catholic Bishop Serotinus retorted "sure he is there, and he is totally useless." [3] The bishopric survives today as a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church, held by Bishop Mark Steven Rivituso, an Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Louis; he was ordained on May 2, 2017. [4] [5] [6]

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References

  1. Turuzi at gcatholic.org
  2. Joseph Bingham,Origines ecclesiasticæ (Robert Knaplock, 1711) p163.
  3. Brent D. Shaw, Sacred Violence: African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine (Cambridge University Press, 1 Sep. 2011) p575.
  4. http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2017/03/07/0139/00329.html
  5. Turuzi in catholic-hierarchy.org
  6. Apostolische Nachfolge – Titularsitze.