Uzzipari
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Uzzipari was a Roman town of the Roman Empire during late antiquity. An exact location for the town has been lost to history[1] although that it was in the Roman province of Africa Proconsolaris means it must have been in northern Tunisia.
In antiquity the town was also the seat of a Christian bishopric,[2][3] suffragan of the Archdiocese of Carthage.
There are three documented bishops of this diocese.
- the Catholic Bishop Mariano attended the Council of Carthage 411, and participated in another council of Carthage in 419.
- Augenzio who attended the synod in Carthage called by the Vandal king Huneric in 484, after which Augenzio was exiled.
- Semenzio took part in the Carthaginian council of 525.
Today Uzzipari survives as a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church and the current Bishop is Thomas Chakiath of Ernakulam-Angamaly.[4]
References
- Back to citation Titular Episcopal See of Uzippari at GCatholic.org.
- Back to citation Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 740.
- Back to citation Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 365–366.
- Back to citation Titular Episcopal See of Uzippari at GCatholic.org.