Abaradira

Roman North Africa

Abaradira was a Roman era city in the Roman province of Byzacena.[1][2] Its exact location is unknown but it would have been in the central part of what is today Tunisia.[3]

Abaradira was also the seat of an ancient bishopric.[4] Only one bishop is known from antiquity,[5] a bishop by the name of Praefectianus who was called by the Vandal king Huneric to a conference in 484 AD and sent into exile shortly after this.[6] Today Abaradira survives as titular bishopric and the current bishop is Marko Semren, of Banja Luka, Bosnia.[7]

References

  1. ↑ A. Notit. Byz. N. 2 (a. 482).
  2. ↑ Jean Louis Maier, The Episcopate of Roman, Vandal and Byzantine Africa (Swiss Institute of Rome, 1973) p95.
  3. ↑ Auguste Audollent, v. Abaradirensis, in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. I, (Paris, 1909), col. 13
  4. ↑ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p58-59.
  5. ↑ Henri Irénée Marrou, André Mandouze, Anne-Marie La Bonnardière, Prosopographie de l'Afrique chrétienne (303–533) p.1246.
  6. ↑ Theodore Ruinart, Viktor von Vita, The history of the persecution: Vandalicae in two distinct parts.
  7. ↑ Titular Episcopal See of Abaradira at GCatholic.org.
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