Sicilibba

Sicilibba was an ancient Roman town of the Roman province of proconsular Africa. The ancient town is tentatively identifiable with the ruins at Alaouine (or Alaouenine) in today's Tunisia.

Sicilibba was also the seat of an ancient Christian bishopric,[1] suffraged by the Archdiocese of Carthage.[2] There are four known (ancient) bishops of Sicilibba.

  • Sazio took part in the Council of Carthage (256) called by Saint Cyprian to discuss the issue of the lapsii, those who had fallen away from Christian belief.
  • The Donatist Quadraziano attended the Council of Carthage (411), between the Catholic bishops and Donatists of Roman Africa. On that occasion Sicilibba had no Catholic bishop.
  • Pretestato participated in the council in Carthage in 419 called by Saint Aurelius.
  • Bonifacio took part in the synod assembled in Carthage in 484 by the Arian King Huneric of the Vandal Kingdom, after which Boneface was exiled.

To these bishops, Morcelli adds the donatist Honorius, mentioned in 337.[3] However, According to Mesnage, it would not be the name of a bishop but of the adjective honoratum jugulum that is present in the text on which Morcelli leans. In that case it is to merely identify the Honored Bishop.[4]

Today Sicilibba survives only as a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church, The current bishop is Christoph Hegge, auxiliary bishop of Münster.

Known bishops

References
  1. Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 468.
  2. La Sicilibba at www.gcatholic.org
  3. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), pp. 278–279
  4. J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912), pp. 24–25.
  5. La sede Sicilibba at www.catholic-hierarchy.org

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