Usilla

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Usilla or Usula was a town in the Roman province of Byzacena, now Inchilla in Tunisia.

Thaenae (Sfax). The ruins of the town include those of a Byzantine basilica.[2]

Usula became a Christian

bishopric, that is included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees.[3]

The names of six of its bishops have been preserved:[2]

  • Felix, who was at the
    Council of Carthage (256)
    ;
  • Cassianus, at the
    Council of Carthage (349)
    ;
  • Theodore, one of the Donatist partisans of Maximianus, who at the Council of Cabarsussi (393) condemned Primianus, and in turn at the Council of Bagai (394) was condemned by the partisans of the latter, as one of the consecrators of Maximianus;
  • Privatus, present at the
    Conference of Carthage (411)
    ;
  • Victorinus, one of the Catholic bishops whom
    summoned to Carthage in 484
    and then exiled;
  • Laurentius, a signatory of the letter against the Monothelites that the bishops of Byzacene addressed to the Byzantine emperor in 641.

References

  1. ^ "CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Usilla".
  2. ^ a b Sophrone Pétridès, "Usilla" in Catholic Encyclopedia (New York 1912)
  3. ), p. 1002
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