Sebkha-El-Coursia
Sebkha-El-Coursia is a salt pan, locality and archaeological site in Tunisia. It was an ancient Roman Catholic diocese.
History
[edit]During antiquity the city was a civitas of the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis called Giufi Salaria.
During the Byzantine and Roman Empires, Sebkha-El-Coursia was also the seat of an ancient Christian episcopal see, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Carthage.[1] Only two bishops of Giufi Salaria are known. Procolo a catholic attended the Council of Carthage (411), and Bennato who participated in the anti-monothetalism Council of Carthage (646).
Today Giufi Salaria survives as titular bishopric and the current bishop is Herman Willebrordus Woorts, of Utrecht. [2]
References
[edit]- ^ J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912), p. 201.
- ^ Titular Episcopal See of Giufi Salaria at gcatholic.org.
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