Assuras
Assuras, sometimes given as Assura or Assur, was a town in the
Proconsular Africa
.
Ruins of its temples and theatres and other public buildings are at Henchir-Zenfour.
Bishopric
At an early stage Assuras became the centre of a Christian
Praetextatus was at the
Saint Augustine says Praetextatus was one of the twelve bishops who consecrated Maximianus as Bishop of Carthage.[6]
The successor of Praetextatus, Rogatus, was converted to the Catholic faith some time after 397.[2][3][4][5]
The Catholic Bishop of Assuras Evangelus took part in councils held at Carthage in
411. The last of these was a meeting of Catholic and Donatist bishops, but Assuras was represented only by Evangelus, since the Donatist bishop of the town had died shortly before.[2][3][4][5]
The last Bishop of Assuras known by name was Peregrinus, who was one of the Catholic bishops summoned to a
Assuras is still mentioned as a bishopric in an early 8th-century Byzantine Patriarchate of Alexandria.[4]
No longer a residential diocese, Assuras is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.[7]
References
- ^ Cyprian, Epistola LXXIV.
- ^ a b c d e Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 464
- ^ a b c d e Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, pp. 85–87
- ^ a b c d e f Joseph Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, Paris 1912, pp. 168–169
- ^ Anatole Toulotte, Géographie de l'Afrique chrétienne, vol. I Proconsulaire, Rennes-Paris 1892, pp. 128-133
- ^ Augustine, The Letters of Petilian, the Donatist, book 1, chapter 10
- ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 840