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Semta (Africa)

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Africa Proconsularis (125 AD)

Semta was a Roman era Municipium also known as Augustum Semta in Africa Proconsularis that is tentatively identified with ruins at Henchir Zemba (Dzemda) [1] Carthage, Tunisia near the Oued el Kebir 20 km (12 mi) southwest of Zaghouan[2] at 36.269282, 9.887345.[3]

Ruins

The site has been excavated and those excavations revealed three different building complexes:[4]

  • a 40 m × 50 m (130 ft × 160 ft) rectangular building,
  • a 4 m (13 ft) high mausoleum and,
  • two further buildings, one of which is called the Byzantine fortress, measuring 40 m × 30 m (131 ft × 98 ft).

Numerous inscriptions have been found there.[5]

Bishopric

The ancient city was also the seat of an ancient bishopric[6] in the ecclesiastical province of Carthage.[7] Only two bishops are known from Semta. The Catholic Maggiorino attended the Council of Carthage (411), as at that time the city had no Donatist bishops. Florenzio took part in the anti-Monothelite Council of Carthage (646). The current bishop is Juan Gómez.[8][9]

Canonical status and jurisdiction

Semta is a titular see of the Catholic Church.[10]

References

  1. Back to citation Brent D. Shaw, Sacred Violence: African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine (Cambridge University Press, 2011 ).
  2. Back to citation Barington Altas.
  3. Back to citation "Semta, Henchir-Dzemda – Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire".
  4. Back to citation Semta, Henchir Dzemda.
  5. Back to citation Louis Poinssot & Robert Lantier, Q. Geminius Sabinus, Princeps peregrinorum Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (1923) Vol 67, Num 3 pp. 197-201.
  6. Back to citation Semta at catholic-hierarchy.org.
  7. Back to citation "Apostolische Nachfolge – Titularsitze". Archived from the original on 2019-01-19. Retrieved 2016-12-21; Semta at gcatholic.org (English); J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912), p. 63.
  8. Back to citation Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 127.
  9. Back to citation Revue des Ordinations Épiscopales, Issue 1955, Number 71.
  10. Back to citation Wikidata item Q930467
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