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Africa Proconsularis (125 AD)

Utimma was an ancient city in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis[1] (now northern Tunisia ) during the Byzantine and Roman Empires.[2][3] the exact location of Utimma is lost to history but it is believed to be between Sidi Medien and Henchir-Reoucha in Tunisia.

The town of Utimma was also the home of a suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.[4][5] There are two known bishops of this diocese both attendee at the Council of Carthage (411), the Catholic Ottavio and Donatist Bonifacio.[6][7] Today Utimma survives as a titular bishopric,[8][9] the current bishop is Theodorus van Ruijven.[10]

Canonical status and jurisdiction

Utimma is a titular see of the Catholic Church.[11]

References

  1. Back to citation Bulletin of the Société de l'histoire de France (J. Renouard, 1844), p253.
  2. Back to citation Utimma in catholic-hierarchy.org
  3. Back to citation Apostolische Nachfolge – Titularsitze.
  4. Back to citation Utimma in www.catholic-hierarchy.org.
  5. Back to citation Utimma www.gcatholic.org.
  6. Back to citation Jean Hardouin, Claude Rigaud (París), Acta conciliorum et epistolae decretales ac constitutiones summorum pontificum (Ex Typographia Regia, 1715) p16.
  7. Back to citation Gosse, Alberts, The Great Geographical and Critical Dictionary (Hondt, 1739)
  8. Back to citation Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p.470.
  9. Back to citation Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p.364.
  10. Back to citation Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 199, Number 16,267.
  11. Back to citation Wikidata item Q127355
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