Botriana
Botriana is a locality and archaeological site in Tunisia[1]
History
Africa Proconsularis
(125 AD)During the
Africa Proconsolaris
. The town was known to have flourished from 30BC to about AD640.
The town was also the
Only one bishop from ancient Botriana is known and that was the
Council of Carthage (411). He claimed there was no Catholic competitor in his diocese.[7] Today Botriana survives as titular bishopric and the current bishop is Renzo Fratini, of Spain and Andorra.[8][9]
References
- ^ R.B. Hitchner , Botriana. at Pleiades name resource.
- ^ Auguste Audollent, v. Botrianensis in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. IX, (1937), col. 1420.
- ^ Joseph Bingham, Origines ecclesiasticæ vol 2. (William Straker, 1834) p447.
- ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931) p. 464
- ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), pp. 106–107,
- ^ Auguste Audollent, v. Botrianensis in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. IX, (1937), col. 1420.
- ^ Patrologia Latina, vol XI, col. 1321 e seguenti.
- ^ David Cheney, Diocesi di Botriana, at Catholic-Hierarchy.org.
- ^ Titular Episcopal See of Botriana, at gcatholic.org