Temuniana
Temuniana was a Roman town of Roman North Africa which existed during the Vandal Kingdom, Byzantine Empire and Roman Empire.
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Africa Proconsulare (125 AD)
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.
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