Tabunia
Tabunia, is an ancient city and former bishopric of
Roman North Africa, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see
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History
Tabunia was among the many cities of significant importance in the
Carthage
, in the papal sway.
The seat of the diocese, or cathedra, remains unknown and it is unknown when it ceased to function though it was some time between the Vandal Kingdom and the 7th century Muslim conquest of the Maghreb.
The only historically documented bishop of the diocese was Quintus,
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin
titular bishopric
of Tabunia (Latin = Curiate Italian) / Tabunien(sis) (Latin adjective).
It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank :[4]
- José Eduardo Alvarez Ramírez, Military Ordinary of El Salvador(1986.07.21 – died 1987.03.07); died 2000
- Coadjutor Bishop of Long Xuyên (Vietnam) (1975.04.15 – 1997.12.30); next succeeded as Bishop of Long Xuyên (1997.12.30–retired 2003.10.02)
- Apostolic Administration of Eastern Siberia (Russia) (1999.05.18 – 2002.02.11) and Apostolic Administrator of Apostolic Prefecture of Yuzhno Sakhalinsk (Russia) (2000–2003.04.17); later Bishop of Saint Joseph at Irkutsk (Russia) (2002.02.11–2003.04.17), Bishop of Ełk(Poland) (2003.04.17– ...)
- Leon Malyi (2002.05.04 – ...), Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Lviv (Ukraine) (2002.05.04– ...), no previous prelature.
See also
References
- ^ Jean Hardouin, Claude Rigaud, Acta conciliorum et epistolae decretales ac constitutiones summorum pontificum (Ex Typographia Regia, 1715) page xiii.
- ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig 1931), p.468.
- ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 295.
- ^ Titular Episcopal See of Tabunia at GCatholic.org.
Sources and external links
Bibliography
- Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 468
- Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 295
- François Morenas, Dictionnaire historique-portatif de la géographie Sacrée ancienne et moderne, Paris? (Desaint & Saillant), 1759, p699.