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Africa Proconsulare (125 AD)
Temuniana was a
Roman town of
Roman North Africa which existed during the
Vandal Kingdom ,
Byzantine Empire and
Roman Empire .
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
Catholic
diocese
[7]
[8]
[9] There are three bishops of
antiquity known from the town:
[10]
Cresconius, episc . Plebis Temonianensis.
Fl 411.
Cresconius Temoniarensis, fl.484.
[11]
Victorinus, episc . Ecc. Temunianensis, fl641.
Today the bishopric survives as a
titular see of the
Roman Catholic Church .
[12] The current
bishop is
Robert Anthony Brucato who replaced
Peter Joseph Connors of Ballarat in 1997.
[13]
References
^
Temuniana in catholic-hierarchy.org .
^
Roman Hydraulic installations, p107 .
^
Roman Hydraulic installations, p107 .
^
Roman Hydraulic installations, p107 .
^ SOCIÉTÉ ARCHÉOLOGIQUE DE SOUSSE, 1905
p139 .
^ SOCIÉTÉ ARCHÉOLOGIQUE DE SOUSSE, 1905
p140 .
^
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 .