Africa Proconsularis (125 AD)

The Diocese of Aquensis in Byzacena is a home suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.[1]

The diocese was centered on Aquensis a civitas of the Roman province of Byzacena, which is tentatively identified with El Hamma in modern Tunisia.[2]

Mesnage,[3] attributes two bishops:

  • Gennaro, who took part at the Council of Cabarsussi in 393, made up of bishops Maximianus, Donatist sect;
  • Crescente, that Victor of Vita, in his history of the persecution of the Vandals, calls metropolitanus Aquitanae civitatis'. Crescente name appears in the Roman martyrology on 28 November.

However, Morcelli,[4] identifies only one bishop of this diocese – Vittoriano, who participated for the Catholic side, in the Council of Carthage (411).

Today Aquensis in Byzacena survives as titular bishopric[5][6][7] and the current bishop is Nicolai Dubinin, O.F.M.Conv, Auxiliary Bishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Moscow.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p.464.
  2. ↑ Titular Episcopal See of Aquæ in Byzacena, atGCatholic.org.
  3. ↑ J. Mesnage L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912), p. 179.
  4. ↑ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I (Brescia, 1816), pp. 79–80.
  5. ↑ Aquae in Byzacena, at catholic-hierarchy.org.
  6. ↑ Titular Episcopal See of Aquæ in Byzacena, atGCatholic.org.
  7. ↑ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1)
  8. ↑ Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 222, Number 18,376.
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