Town in Numidia, Ancient Rome
Africa proconsularis SPQR. Girus Tarasii was a town in the Roman province of Numidia that became a residential episcopal see . It is tentatively identified with ruins situated at what is now called Henchir-Tarsa in Algeria .[ 1]
Girus Tarasii was probably the seat of an ancient bishopric which survives as a titular see of the Catholic Church ,[ 1] Tarasa in Numidia .
History
Bishopric
The city was the seat of an ancient bishopric .[ 2] [ 3]
Little is known of the bishopric. However, the bishop here, Cresconio, attended the synod in Carthage in 484 called by the Vandal king Huneric after which the bishop was exiled.[ 4] [ 5] Council of Carthage (256) called by Cyprian to discuss the problem of Lapsi Tarasa of Byzacena .[ 6]
The bishopric ceased to effectively function with the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb but was re-founded in name in the early 20th century and remains as a titular bishopric .[ 8] Artur Grzegorz Miziński of Poland .[ 9]
See also
References
^ a b Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1 ), p. 903^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana , Volume I (Brescia, 1816), p. 307.
^ Pius Bonifacius Gams , Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae (Leipzig 1931), p. 468.^ Morcelli
^ H. Jaubert, "Évêchés Anciens et ruines chrétiennes de la Numidie et de la Sitifienne", in Reports of Notices et Memoires de la Société archéologique de Constantine , vol. 46, 1913, p. 79.
^ J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne , (Paris 1912), p. 432.
^ Old Faithful ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams , Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae , (Leipzig , 1931), p. 468.^ Titular Episcopal See of Tarasa in Numidia , at GCatholic.org.
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