Temuniana
Temuniana was a Roman town of Roman North Africa during the Vandal, Byzantine and Roman Empires.
Archaeology
The Roman town of Temuniana has been tentatively identified with ruins at Henchir-Temounia,[1] in Tunisia.[2], in Tunisia.[3] These ruins include many subterranean cisterns, [4][5]There are also remains of pipes and dams.[6]
History
Temuniana was also the seat of an ancient Christian bishopric[7][8][9] There are three bishops of antiquity known from the town:[10]
- Cresconius, episc. Plebis Temonianensis. Fl 411.
- Cresconius Temoniarensis, fl484. [11]
- Victorinus, episc. Ecc. Temunianensis, fl641.
Today the bishopric survives as a titular See of the Roman Catholic church.[12] The current Bishop is Bishop Robert Anthony Brucato who replaced Peter Joseph Connors of Ballarat in 1997.[13]
References
- ↑ Temuniana in catholic-hierarchy.org.
- ↑ Roman Hydraulic instilations, p107.
- ↑ Roman Hydraulic instilations, p107.
- ↑ Roman Hydraulic instilations, p107.
- ↑ SOCIÉTÉ ARCHÉOLOGIQUE DE SOUSSE, 1905p139.
- ↑ SOCIÉTÉ ARCHÉOLOGIQUE DE SOUSSE, 1905p140.
- ↑ Temuniana at www.gcatholic.org.
- ↑ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 469.
- ↑ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 311.
- ↑ "L'Afrique chrétienne : évèchés et ruines antiques d'après les manuscrits de Mgr. Toulotte et les découvertes archéologiques les plus récentes.
- ↑ Notit., Byzac, 97.
- ↑ Apostolische Nachfolge – Titularsitze
- ↑ Diocese of Ballarat Australia.
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