Ausafa
Ausafa or UzappaAfrica Proconsularis and in late antiquity Byzacena.
The town is tentatively identified with the ruins of Ksour-Abd-El-Melek near the town of Maktar in Siliana Governorate, northern Tunisia.
In antiquity the town was the
We know of two
Donatists, and he signed the acts of that council.[6] Today Ausafa survives as a titular bishopric, the current bishop is Warlito Cajandig y Itcuas, Apostolic Vicar of Calapan.[7][8]
References
- ^ Charles Monchicourt. Kalaat-Senane. "Note sur l'orthographe et le sens de ce dernier mot." Revue Tunisienne. 1906; 13: p213–216
- ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 464.
- ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816) pp. 87-88.
- ^ Auguste Audollent, v. Ausafa in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. V, 1931, col. 765.
- ^ Patrologia Latina, t. III, col. 1110.
- ^ Patrologia Latina, XXXVI, col. 380.
- ^ Ausafa at www.gcatholic.org
- ^ Ausafa, at catholic-hierarchy.org.
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