Vegesela in Byzacena

Africa Proconsularis (125 AD)

Vegesela in Byzacena was a Roman Era town tentatively identified with ruins at Henchir-Recba in modern Tunisia.[1] The town was in the Roman province of Byzacena.

The ancient town was also the seat of an ancient Christian Bishopric, which survives today as a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.[2] René Coba Galarza is the current Bishop.[3][4] The diocese effectively ceased to function with the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb. Today the diocese of Vegesela in Byzacena (Latin: Dioecesis Vegeselitana in Byzacena) is a suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.[5][6]

There are only six documented bishops of Vegesela in Byzacena.

  • Privato attended the Carthaginian council called by Grato in 349.
  • The Catholic Privaziano intervened at the Carthage conference of 411, which saw together the Catholic and Donatist bishops of Roman Africa; on that occasion the headquarters did not have a Donatist bishop.
  • Alfredo Torres Romero (December 30, 1967 - July 26, 1980 appointed Bishop of Toluca)
  • Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino (3 July 1982 - 16 March 1990 appointed archbishop of Valencia en Venezuela)
  • Segundo René Coba Galarza (June 7, 2006 - June 18, 2014)
  • Franz Josef Gebert, from 31 May 2017auxiliary bishop of Trier


References

  1. ↑ Anna Leone, Changing Townscapes in North Africa from Late Antiquity to the Arab Conquest (Edipuglia srl, 2007) p354.
  2. ↑ Apostolische Nachfolge – Titularsitze
  3. ↑ Vegesela in Byzacena at catholic-hierarchy.org.(english)]
  4. ↑ Vegesela in Byzacena at gcatholic.org
  5. ↑ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 469.
  6. ↑ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 349.


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