Tigisis in Numidia
Oum el Bouaghi Province, Algeria | |
Coordinates | 36°06′38″N 06°56′48″E / 36.11056°N 6.94667°E |
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Type | Settlement |
History | |
Periods | Roman Empire |
Site notes | |
Condition | In ruins |
Tigisis, also known as Tigisis in Numidia to distinguish it from
History
Under the
The account in
Nun",[3]
could be the earliest reference to its national identity.
The emperor
Justinian had Tigisis fortified with a wall and fourteen towers. Known as Tījis during the Islamic Middle Ages, the city was captured by a Kutama Berber force led by Abu Abdallah al-Shi'i in the winter of 907–908, during the latter's campaign against the Aghlabid emir in Kairouan. Proceeding eastward along the northern of the two main Roman roads to Kairouan, Abu Abdallah's army laid siege to Tijis and eventually got the 500-strong Aghlabid garrison to surrender in exchange for safe passage.[4]
Tijis was later involved in the founding of the
Diocese
The town of Tigisis was the seat of a bishopric during the Roman, Vandal, and Byzantine eras.persecution under Diocletian appears to have reached its height in Tigisis during February 304.
Although the diocese ceased to function in the early 7th century, a
Roman Catholic Church
in 1933.
Bishops
Ancient diocese
Titular diocese
- Michel-Gaspard Coppenrath (16 Feb 1968 – 5 Mar 1973)
- Mogale Paul Nkhumishe (5 Nov 1981 – 9 Jan 1984)
- Aldo Maria Lazzarín Stella (15 May 1989 – 16 Oct 2010)
- Peter Comensoli (20 Apr 2011 – 20 Nov 2014)[6]
- Denis Jean-Marie Jachiet (25 June 2016 – present)
References
Citations
- ^ Procopius 1914, Book IV, §13.
- ^ Bingham (1843), Vol. III, p. 230.
- ^ Procopius 1914, Book IV, §10.
- ISBN 90-04-10056-3. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
- ISBN 978-90-04-29857-6. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
- ^ a b "Tigisi in Numidia", Catholic Hierarchy.
- ^ Decret (2011), p. 102.
- ^ Notita, No. 89.
Bibliography
- Amitay, Ory (2011), "Procopius of Caesarea and the Girgashite Diaspora", Journal for the Study of the Pseudoepigrapha, vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 257–276, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.878.3222.
- Bingham, Joseph (1843), Origines Ecclesiasticae..., Straker.
- Decret, François (2011), Early Christianity in North Africa, James Clarke & Co.
- Procopius (1914), Dewing, Henry Bronson (ed.), History of the Wars, Cambridge: Harvard University Press.