Diocese of Ziqua

Map of Roman Africa Proconsularae.

Diocese of Ziqua is a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church in North Africa.

Ziqua was an ancient Roman town of classical antiquity, in Roman North Africa, during the Roman Empire.[1][2][3]

It was on the road from the port at Neopolis to Thabbora in the hinterland, and is today identified with ruins at Henchir-Belaiet in Tunisia, and has given its name to the town of Zaghouan nearby.[4][5][6]

The ancient town was located at 36.393555, 10.1390015 and flourished from 330 BC – AD 640, with the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb. The town was the seat of a Christian bishopric.[7] which survives today as a titular bishopric of the Catholic province of Proconsolare; with Silvio José Báez Ortega of Nicaragua as the current bishop.[8]

References

  1. ↑ R.B. Hitchner, Ziqua, Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2016.
  2. ↑ Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 32 F4 Ziqua.
  3. ↑ Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
  4. ↑ Zaghouan at Rome Art Lover
  5. ↑ The ancient city of ZIQUA .
  6. ↑ http://www.cassiciaco.it/navigazione/africa/siti_archeologici/ziqua.html
  7. ↑ Diocese of Zica, at catholic-hierarchy.org.
  8. ↑ Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 198, Number 16,181.
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