Mattiana

Africa Proconsularis (125 AD)

Mattiana was a Roman-Berber civitas in the province of Africa Proconsularis. The locale existed during late antiquity, and was situated in northern Tunisia.[1]

In antiquity, the town was also the seat of a Catholic bishopric,[2][3] suffragan of the Archdiocese of Carthage. The historical sources mention only one known bishop, Marcellus, who took part in the Council of Carthage of 646. Today Mattiana survives as a titular bishopric[4] of the Roman Catholic Church and the current bishop is Carlos Alberto Salcedo Ojeda of Huancayo, [5] who replaced Edmar Peron in 2016.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Titular Episcopal See of Mattiana, at GCatholic.org.
  2. ↑ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 467.
  3. ↑ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 217.
  4. ↑ Mattiana at catholic-hierarchy.org.
  5. ↑ Titular Episcopal See of Mattiana, at GCatholic.org.
  6. ↑ Titular Episcopal See of Mattiana, at GCatholic.org.
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