Temuniana

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

  1. ^ Temuniana in catholic-hierarchy.org.
  2. ^ Roman Hydraulic installations, p107.
  3. ^ Roman Hydraulic installations, p107.
  4. ^ Roman Hydraulic installations, p107.
  5. ^ SOCIÉTÉ ARCHÉOLOGIQUE DE SOUSSE, 1905 p139.
  6. ^ SOCIÉTÉ ARCHÉOLOGIQUE DE SOUSSE, 1905 p140.
  7. ^ Temuniana at www.gcatholic.org.
  8. ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 469.
  9. ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 311.
  10. ^ "L'Afrique chrétienne : évèchés et ruines antiques d'après les manuscrits de Mgr. Toulotte et les découvertes archéologiques les plus récentes.
  11. ^ Notit., Byzac, 97.
  12. ^ Apostolische Nachfolge – Titularsitze
  13. ^ Diocese of Ballarat Australia.