Zattara
Zattara was an ancient Roman and Byzantine town in the Africa province. It was located in present-day Kef ben-Zioune, south-east of Calama, Algeria. The city was a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.
Zattara was a
Byzantines
.
The citizens of the town seemed to serve in 6th legion (victrix).[1]: 4
There are many inscriptions at Zattara.[2] Among these inscriptions is an important one attesting to its status as a municipium, which reads municipii Zat(taresis) porticu et rostris.[3][4]
Bishopric
The town was also the seat of an ancient
bishopric in the province of Numidia.[5] It was founded around 400AD but ceased to effectively function with the coming of Islam in the 7th century. The see was nominally refounded in 1927[6] and remains a titular today.[7][8][9][10]
Known bishops
- Licentius 411.
- Gennaro or Januarius (fl 484) participated in the Catholic-faith African bishops.
- Felice (525–535) (Catholic)[12]
- Cresconio (fl. 553) attended the Second Council of Constantinople in 553.
- Anton Oomen (1929–1957).
- Arthur Douville (1967–1970).
- Tadeusz Werno (1974–2022).
References
- Swan, Vivien G. (1992). "Legio VI and its Men: African Legionaries in Britain"(PDF). Journal of Roman Pottery Studies. 5: 1–34.
- ^ Samuel Ball Platner, Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome (Cambridge University Press, 2015) p 586.
- ^ Anthony R. Birley, The Roman Government of Britain (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005) p202.
- ^ J. B. Bury, "A Lost Caesarea", The Cambridge Historical Journal Vol. 1, No. 1 (1923), pp. 1–9.
- ^ Joseph Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticae Volume 3 (Straker, 1843)p229.
- ^ Zattara at GCatholic.org.
- ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1)
- ^ J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris 1912), p. 398.
- ^ H. Jaubert, "Anciens évêchés et ruines chrétiennes de la Numidie et de la Sitifienne" (Recueil des Notices et Mémoires de la Société archéologique de Constantine, vol. 46, 1913), p. 105.
- ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia 1816), p. 188
- ^ Serge Lancel, Saint Augustine (Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd, 2002) p251.
- ^ Henri Irénée Marrou, André Mandouze, Anne-Marie La Bonnardière, Prosopographie de l'Afrique chrétienne (303–533) p443.