Tabbora
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Tabbora was a town in the late Roman province of Africa Proconsularis. The Catholic diocese that had its seat there was a suffragan of Carthage, the capital of the province.
Location[edit]
Tabbora is believed to have been situated in the vicinity of the stone ruins at Tembra, located west of Bijga (ancient Bisica) in the valley of Wadi Siliana, Tunisia.
Bishops[edit]
Two bishops are known:[1]
- Marinus, present at the Conference of Carthage (411), where his rival was Victor, also rival of the Bishop of Bisica;
- Constantine, who signed the letter from the bishops of the province to Patriarch Paul II of Constantinople, against the Monothelites (646).
No longer a residential see, Tabbora is included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, pp. 292–293
- ^ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 979
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Tabbora". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
