Madarsuma
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Madarsuma (in Latin: Dioecesis Madarsumitana) was a Roman town of the Roman province of Byzacena (North Africa) during the Roman Empire and into late antiquity. The city now lost to history remains only as a suppressed and titular see of the Catholic Church.[1]
Location
The actual location of Madarsuma is now lost to history but Henchir-Bou-Doukhane in today's Tunisia has been suggested as one possible candidate site.[2]
History
Only one bishop, Primulian, is known from this town.Roman North Africa.
The
Byzantine Emperor Leo VI (886–912),[4] indicating that the town survived the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb
in the 7th century.
Today Madarsuma survives as a
El Petén
.
References
- ^ Madarsuma at www.catholic-hierarchy.org
- ^ Madarsuma at www.gcatholic.org.
- ^ J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris 1912), pp. 206–207
- ^ Hieroclis Synecdemus et notitiae graecae episcopatuum, accedunt Nili Doxapatrii notitia patriarchatuum et locorum nomina immutata, ex recognitione Gustavi Parthey, (Berlin 1866), p. 79 (nº 650).