Tabbora

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Tabbora is a Catholic titular see. The original diocese was in Africa Proconsularis, a suffragan of the diocese of Carthage.

Tabbora or Talbora has been identified with two groups of ruins rather close to each other, now called Tembra, west of Bijga (ancient Bisica) in the valley of Wadi Siliana, Tunisia.

[edit] Bishops

Two bishops are known:

• Marinus, present at the Conference of Carthage (411), where his rival was Victor, also rival of the Bishop of Bisica;
• Constantine, who signed the letter from the bishops of the province to Paul, Patriarch of Constantinople, against the Monothelites (646).

As of 2008, the titular is António Maria Bessa Taipa.

[edit] References

• Toulotte, Géog. de l'Afrique Chrétienne: Proconsulaire (Paris, 1892), 257

[edit] External links

• Catholic Hierarchy page

This article incorporates text from the entry Tabbora in the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.