Nasbinca

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Nasbinca was a Roman Town of the Roman province of Mauritania Cesariense.

The location of Nasbinca is now lost to history but it was in today's Algeria.[1] The town seems to have survived through late antiquity till at least the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb.

During the Vandal and Roman empires the town was the seat of a bishopric.[2][3] In 484 the towns bishop Gennaro, attended the synod assembled in Carthage by the Vandal King Huneric, after which Gennaro was exiled to Sicily. The current titular bishop is Henry Aruna, of Kenema.[4]

References

  1. Titular Episcopal See of Nasbinca, at GCatholic.org.
  2. Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae,(Leipzig, 1931), p. 467.
  3. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 241.
  4. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d2n12.html

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