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Uzzipari

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Africa Proconsularis (125 AD)

Uzzipari was a Roman town of the Roman Empire during late antiquity. An exact location for the town has been lost to history[1] although that it was in the Roman province of Africa Proconsolaris means it must have been in northern Tunisia.

In antiquity the town was also the seat of a Christian bishopric,[2][3] suffragan of the Archdiocese of Carthage.

There are three documented bishops of this diocese.

Today Uzzipari survives as a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church and the current Bishop is Thomas Chakiath of Ernakulam-Angamaly.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Titular Episcopal See of Uzippari at GCatholic.org.
  2. ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 740.
  3. ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 365–366.
  4. ^ Titular Episcopal See of Uzippari at GCatholic.org.