Muzuca in Byzacena
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Muzuca was a Roman Town of the Roman province of Byzacena during late antiquity.[1] The town has tentatively been identified with the ruins at Henchir-Besra in modern Tunisia.[2][3] Very little is known of the city,[4] though in situ epigraphical evidence gives us the name and that in late antiquity it achieved the status of Municipium.[5]
Muzuca was also the seat of an ancient episcopal see of the Roman Catholic Church,[6] survives as a titular bishopric.[7]
There are three bishops attributable to this African diocese.[8][9]
The Catholic Restituto and the Donatist Idassio took part in the Carthage conference of 411, which brought together the Catholic and Donatist bishops of Roman Africa.[10]
Innocent attended the synod gathered in Carthage by the Vandal king of Hunaric in 484, after which he was exiled.
Today Muzuca di Bizacena survives as a titular bishop's seat; the current titular bishop is Luka Sylvester Gopep.
See also
Canonical status and jurisdiction
Muzuca in Byzacena is a titular see of the Catholic Church.[11]
References
- Back to citation Joseph Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticae (W. Straker, 1834) p444.
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- Back to citation Muzuca in Byzacena at gcatholic.org.
- Back to citation Elizabeth Fentress, Where were North African Nundinae held.
- Back to citation Charles Tissot, Rapport sur la mission en Tunisie de M. Julien Poinssot, séance du 28 septembre 1883 (1883) Vol.27 Num.3 pp. 329-343, page 40.
- Back to citation Gurzensis at catholic-hierarchy.org.
- Back to citation Muzuca in Byzacena at gcatholic.org.
- Back to citation Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 467.
- Back to citation Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia 1816), p. 238.
- Back to citation J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris 1912), p. 38.
- Back to citation Wikidata item Q375378