Avissa

Avissa also known as Avissensis was a Roman and Byzantine-era town in Roman province of Africa Proconsularis, Roman North Africa. The town is tentatively identified with ruins at Henchir-Bour-Aouitta in Tunisia.

The city was the seat of an ancient bishopric[1] and remains a titular see to the current time.[2][3] The bishopric was in the ecclesiastical province of Carthage.[4]

One bishop is known from antiquity. Vittoriano, a Donatist bishop of the town was at the Conference of Carthage (411),[5] no competitor Catholic bishop is known. The current bishop is Piotr Jarecki of Warsaw.

References

  1. ↑ Auguste Audollent, v. Avitta in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. V, 1931, coll. 1210–1211
  2. ↑ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana, Volume I, (Brescia 1816), p62-63
  3. ↑ Avissa at catholic-hierarchy.org.
  4. ↑ Titular Episcopal See of Avissa, at GCatholic.org.
  5. ↑ Patrologia Latina, XI, col. 1322.
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