Migirpa

Africa Proconsularis (125 AD)

Migirpa was an ancient Roman-Berber civitas in the province of Africa Proconsularis. It flourished from 30 BCE to 640 CE.[1] The town is identified as stone ruins near Carthage, Tunisia.[2][3]

Church use

Migirpa was also the seat of an ancient Christian diocese,[4][5] an episcopal see, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Carthage.[6] The Diocese of Migirpa (in Latin Rite Migirpensis) is a home suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.[7] There were five bishops documented in late antiquity at Migirpa and four in the 21st century.

Today Migirpa survives as a home suppressed and titular see of the Catholic Church. The current bishop is Andris Kravalis, of Riga.

References

  1. ^ R.B. Hitchner Migirpa.
  2. ^ Titular Episcopal See of Migirpa.
  3. ^ Migirpa at catholic-hierarchy.org.
  4. ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 467.
  5. ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), pp. 227–228.
  6. ^ J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912), p. 211.
  7. ^ David M. Cheney,Migirpa at catholic-hierarchy.org.
  8. ^ Augustine, The Writings Against the Manichaeans, Chapter 9.—13
  9. ^ Augustine, On Baptism, Against the Donatists, chapter 9.
  10. ^ Brent D Shaw, Sacred Violence: African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine (Cambridge University Press, 2011) p360.
  11. ^ Brent D Shaw, Sacred Violence: African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine (Cambridge University Press, 2011) p360.
  12. ^ Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 215, Number 17,865.