Ruspe

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Ruspe or Ruspae was a town in the

titular bishopric
.

Name

The name "Ruspe" is usually understood to be a hellenization of a Phoenician name including the element "rush" (Punic: 𐤓𐤔‬, RŠ), meaning "head" or "headland".[2]

The

Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria saw as dependent on itself at the beginning of the 8th century.[2] Henricus de Noris considered it equivalent to the Latin Ruspa. "Ruspae", a Latin feminine plural name, was preferred by Alexander MacBean,[6] William Smith,[7] Morcelli;[8] Mesnage,[2] and the Annuario Pontificio.[9]

Geography

According to the Tabula Peutingeriana, Ruspe was situated between Acholla and Usilla. It was near the promontory that Ptolemy called Brachodes, the Romans' Caput Vadorum, later known as Capaudia or—in Arabic—Qaboudia[7][10][11] (cf. Chebba).

Ruspe was commonly

Latin: nobile oppidum clarissimis habitatoribus prorsus illustre).[10]

Religion

The city was important enough in the

Archdiocese of Hadrumetum
, but was to fade.

Bishops of Ruspe earlier than Saint Fulgentius (Italian:

Fulgenzio di Ruspe
) whose names are known are

The immediate successor of Fulgentius was

Council of Carthage (534)
.

Titular see

No longer a residential bishopric, Ruspae (the spelling used in the Annuario Pontificio) is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.[9][17][18]

The bishops who have held this title are:

References

  1. OCLC 6478604
    .
  2. ^ a b c d e J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912), pp. 140–141
  3. ^ Image of section of the Tabula Peutingeriana with Ruspe
  4. ^ Henricus de Noris in Migne's Supplement to the Works of Augustine, Patrologia Latina, vol. 47, col. 297B
  5. ^ Book IV, Chapter 3
  6. ^ Alexander MacBean, Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of Ancient Geography (G. Robinson, 1773)
  7. ^ a b William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854)
  8. ^ a b Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), pp. 265–266
  9. ^
    ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1
    ), p. 961
  10. ^ a b c d e G. Ch. Picard, "Ruspe" in Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica (Treccani 1965)
  11. ^ Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 5 (Baudry's European Library, 1840), chapter 41, footnote 15
  12. ^ a b c Sophrone Pétridès, "Ruspe" in Catholic Encyclopedia (New York 1912)
  13. ^ The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1976)
  14. ^ Henchir Bou Tria: Tunisia
  15. ^ Rass Bou Tria
  16. ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 468.
  17. ^ La sede titolare nel sito di www.catholic-hierarchy.org
  18. ^ La sede titolare nel sito di www.gcatholic.org

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