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Ksour-El-Khaoua is a locality in southern
Tunisia,
North Africa.
[1]
During the
Roman Empire the town was a
civitas (town) in the
Roman province of
Byzacena.
[2] and the
seat of an ancient Christian
bishopric.
[3]
The ancient Christian bishopric
[4] survives today as a
titular see of the
Roman Catholic Church.
[5]
[6]
[7]
The only Bishop known from this diocese is Stefano, who participated in the
Council of Carthage (641). The current
titular bishop of the town is
John Stephen Knight.
[8]
Africa Proconsularis (125 AD)
References
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^
Titular Episcopal See of Taraqua, at gcatholic.org.
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^
Titular Episcopal See of Taraqua, at gcatholic.org.
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^
Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013,
ISBN
978-88-209-9070-1),
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^
"Apostolische Nachfolge – Titularsitze". Archived from
the original on 2015-02-04. Retrieved 2017-02-27.
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^
Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 468.
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^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 307.
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^ J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912), p. 226.
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^
Titular Episcopal See of Taraqua, at gcatholic.org.