Garriana

Garriana was a Roman Town of the Roman province of Byzacena during late antiquity.[1] The town has tentitivly been identified with the ruins at Henchir-El-Garra in modern Tunisia.[2][3]The name Henchir-El-Garra simply means the Ruins of Garria.

Ancient Henchir-El-Garra was also the seat of an ancient episcopal see of the Roman Catholic Church.[4][5] The only known bishop of this diocese was Secundus, who took part in the synod in Carthage called by the Vandal king Huneric in 484 , after which Secundus was exiled. Today Garriana survives as a titular bishopric and Rogelio Esquivel Medina of mexico is the current Bishop.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Joseph Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticae (W. Straker, 1834) p444.
  2. ↑ "Trismegistos".
  3. ↑ La sede titolare at gcatholic.org.
  4. ↑ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae , (Leipzig, 1931), p. 465.
  5. ↑ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana , Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), pp. 165–166.
  6. ↑ Garriana at catholic-hierarchy.org.

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