The Diocese of Aquensis in Byzacena is a home suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.[1]
The diocese was centered on Aquensis a civitas of the Roman province of Byzacena, which is tentatively identified with El Hamma in modern Tunisia.[2]
Mesnage,[3] attributes two bishops:
- Gennaro, who took part at the Council of Cabarsussi in 393, made up of bishops Maximianus, Donatist sect;
- Crescente, that Victor of Vita, in his history of the persecution of the Vandals, calls metropolitanus Aquitanae civitatis'. Crescente name appears in the Roman martyrology on 28 November.
However, Morcelli,[4] identifies only one bishop of this diocese – Vittoriano, who participated for the Catholic side, in the Council of Carthage (411).
Today Aquensis in Byzacena survives as titular bishopric[5][6][7] and the current bishop is Nicolai Dubinin, O.F.M.Conv, Auxiliary Bishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Moscow.[8]
References
- ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p.464.
- ^ Titular Episcopal See of Aquæ in Byzacena, atGCatholic.org.
- ^ J. Mesnage L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912), p. 179.
- ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I (Brescia, 1816), pp. 79–80.
- ^ Aquae in Byzacena, at catholic-hierarchy.org.
- ^ Titular Episcopal See of Aquæ in Byzacena, atGCatholic.org.
- ^ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1)
- ^ Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 222, Number 18,376.