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Aïn Tebernoc

Aïn Tebernoc is a former Catholic diocese and archaeological site in Tunisia.

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Aïn Tebernoc is a former Catholic diocese and archaeological site in Tunisia.

History

Aïn Tebernoc has numerous Roman era ruins and is tentatively identified as the site of the ancient city of Tubernuca,1 a municipium of the Roman Province of Africa Proconsolare2 Numerous inscriptions in situ confirm the name and status of the Roman city.3

Following the Reconquista of Spain, a group of Andalusian Moors settled in its ruins at the end of the 15th century.

Ancient Tubernuca was also the seat of an ancient Catholic Bishopric.4 It was a suffragan of Carthage, which survives today as a titular Bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church. Only one bishop from antiquity is known to us, Repositus, a correspondent with Cyprian.5 The current bishop of the Bishopric is Antuan Ilgit, auxiliary bishop of Apostolic Vicariate of Anatolia since 2023.

References

References

  1. Reinhart Herzog, Peter Lebrechtschmidt, [Handbook of the Latin Literature of Antiquity, Issue 5 ] (CHBeck, 1989).
  2. Joseph-Anatole Toulotte, Geography of Christian Africa: Proconsular. Author: (Rennes, 1892) p312.
  3. Joseph-Anatole Toulotte, Géographie de l'Afrique chrétienne(Rennes, 1892) p299.
  4. Episcopal See of Tubernuca at GCatholic.org.
  5. Joseph-Anatole Toulotte, Géographie de l'Afrique chrétienne(Rennes, 1892) p299.