Germaniciana
Pre Nicaean father, Cyprian, who was bishop
of Abbir Germaniciana around 250AD.
Location
The location of Abbir Germaniciana is unknown but:
- Membressa,[4] in the Medjerda RiverValley.
- Today Henchir el Naam, a location west of El Fahs and north of Theveste near lake Sebkhet el Kourzia, has support as the location of Abbir Maius.[5] This would place the city on the Meliane Wadi.
- Others, citing Roman sources, claim in the vicinity of Geographer of Ravenna as just the Germana, and Antonine Itinerary as Ad Germani, and both authors place it in the vicinity of Theveste.[6]
Which ever location it was in, it was definitely on along the coastal hinterlands of the Maghreb.
- Still others[7][8] suggest ruins of Ksour-el-Maïete near the Cherita and the Sebkhet de Sidi El Hani lakes, in southern Tunisia.
Bishopric
The town was also the seat of an ancient
Diocletian Persecution but was taken into the Vandal Kingdom
around 429 AD, and with the arrival of the Islamic armies at the end of the 7th century the bishopric ceased to effectively function.
In 1933 the diocese was re-established in name at least, as a titular see.[9]
Known bishops
- Cyprian of Carthagefl 250.
- Successus, the Bishop of Abbir Germaniciana Pope St. Sixtus II at New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia. fl258.[10] martyred[11][12]
- Annibonius (Catholic bishop) fl.411
- Candidus (Catholic bishop) fl. 416–419
- Felix fl436–484.
- Paul Bouque (1964–1976)
- Aloisio Sinesio Bohn of Brasília (1977–1980)
- Hermann Josef Spital of Münster (Germany) 1980–1981.
- Trier(Germany) 1982–2018
References
- ^ Abbiritanus Germanicianorum
- ^ Edward White Benson, Cyprian: His Life, His Times, His Work: His Life, His Times, His Work (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2004) p604
- ^ Anna Leone, Changing Townscapes in North Africa from Late Antiquity to the Arab Conquest(Edipuglia srl, 2007) p90
- ^ Adolf Harnack, The Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries, 2 Volumes (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 1997) p 425.
- ^ Henri Irénée Marrou, André Mandouze, Anne-Marie La Bonnardière, Prosopographie de l'Afrique chrétienne (303–533) (Éditions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1982) p. 1315.
- ^ Situation of the town of Théveste during the cutting of Africa by Genséric.
- ^ Bulletin Archéologique du Comité des travaux historiques Et scientifiques.
- ISBN 3-519-04273-8). and Pierre Salama, Les voies romaines de l'Afrique du Nord, Alger, 1951 (with a map of 1949).
- ^ Titular Episcopal See of Abbir Germaniciana at GCatholic.org.
- ^ Vita of Cyprian, Cap. Xiv.
- ^ Edward White Benson, Cyprian: His Life, His Times, His Work (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2004) p. 471.
- ^ Cypr. Epistle. lvii., lxvii., lxx., lxxx.