Tabbora
Tabbora was a town in the late Roman province of Africa Proconsularis. The Catholic diocese that had its seat there was a suffragan of Carthage, the capital of the province.
Location
Tabbora is believed to have been situated in the vicinity of the stone ruins at Tembra, located west of Bijga (ancient Bisica) in the valley of Wadi Siliana, Tunisia.
Bishops
Two bishops are known:[1]
- Marinus, present at the Conference of Carthage (411), where his rival was Victor, also rival of the Bishop of Bisica;
- Constantine, who signed the letter from the bishops of the province to Patriarch Paul II of Constantinople, against the Monothelites (646).
No longer a residential see, Tabbora is included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees.[2]
Canonical status and jurisdiction
Tabbora is a titular see of the Catholic Church.[3]
From the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia
A titular see in Africa Proconsularis, suffragan of Carthage. Tabbora or Talbora has been identified with two groups of ruins rather close to each other, now called Tembra, west of Bijga (ancient Bisica) in the valley of Wady Siliana, Tunis. Two bishops are known: Marinus, present at the Conference of Carthage (411), where his rival was Victor, also rival of the Bishop of Bisica; and Constantine, who signed the letter from the bishops of the province to Paul, Patriarch of Constantinople, against the Monothelites (646).
TOULOTTE, Géog. de l'Afrique Chrétienne: Proconsulaire (Paris, 1892), 257.
References
- Back to citation Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, pp. 292–293
- Back to citation Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 979
- Back to citation Wikidata item Q2386436
Bibliography
- Attribution