Castellum Tatroportus

Castellum Tatroportus, also known as Tatroporto Castle or Latin Dioctsis Castellotatro-Portensis, was a Roman town that flourished through the Vandal and Roman Empires and into late Antiquity.[1] It was located in the Roman province of Mauritania Cesariense in (North Africa, though an exact location has not been identified.[2][3][4][5]

In 484 AD Bishop Reparato, took part in the synod assembled in Carthage by the Vandal King Huneric, after which Reparato was exiled. The current bishop is Rosalvo Cordeiro de Lima, of Fortaleza.[6]

The town seems to have lasted till at least the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb.

References

  1. ↑ Titular Episcopal See of Castellum Tatroportus, at GCatholic.org.
  2. ↑ Titular Episcopal See of Castellum Tatroportus, at GCatholic.org.
  3. ↑ Castello di Tatroporto at CatholicHeirachy.org.
  4. ↑ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 465.
  5. ↑ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 129.
  6. ↑ Castello di Tatroporto at CatholicHierarchy.org.
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