Iubaltiana

Iubaltiana
Africa Proconsularis (125 AD).
Iubaltiana
Location in Tunisia
Coordinates: 35°40′N 10°05′E / 35.667°N 10.083°E / 35.667; 10.083
Country Tunisia
Governorate Kairouan
Elevation 68 m (223 ft)

Iubaltiana was a Roman–Berber civitas (town) in the province of Africa Proconsularis and in late antiquity in Byzacena. The town has been tentatively identified with ruins near Kairouan in today's Tunisia.[1]

Iubaltiana was also the seat of an ancient Christian bishopric,[2] governed under the Bishop of Carthage.[3] It was one of several bishoprics in what is today the Kairouan city area.

Today the bishopric survives as a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church and the current bishop is Luis Manuel Alí Herrera who succeeded Karl-Josef Rauber in 2015.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Titular Episcopal See of Iubaltiana.
  2. ↑ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931).
  3. ↑ Joseph Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticae, Volume 3 (Straker, 1843) p231.
  4. ↑ Titular Episcopal See of Iubaltiana at catholic-hierarchy.org.
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