Horta, Africa

Horta was a city and bishopric in Roman Africa, which only remains as Latin Catholic titular see.[1]

See Horta for namesakes
Africa Proconsularis.

History

Horta, identified with Srâ-Orta in modern Tunisia, was among the many cities of sufficient importance in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis, in the papal sway, to become a suffragan diocese of the Archbishopric of capital Carthage. Like many, it faded completely, plausibly at the 7th century advent of Islam.

Its only historically documented bishop, Donatus, partook in the Council of Carthage (646) against the heresy of monotheletism.

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin titular bishopric of Horta (Latin)[2] / Orta (Curiate Italian) / Horten(sis) (Latin adjective)

It has had the following incumbents of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank with an archiepiscopal exception:[3]

See also
  • List of Catholic dioceses in Tunisia

References
  1. J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, Paris 1912, p. 204
  2. Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1).
  3. GCatholic
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