Iubaltiana
Iubaltiana | |
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.svg) Africa Proconsularis (125 AD). | |
  Iubaltiana Location in Tunisia | |
| Coordinates: 35°40′N 10°05′E / 35.667°N 10.083°E | |
| Country | Tunisia |
| Governorate | Kairouan |
| Elevation | 68 m (223 ft) |
Iubaltiana was a Roman–Berber civitas (town) in the province of Africa Proconsularis and in late antiquity in Byzacena. The town has been tentatively identified with ruins near Kairouan in today's Tunisia.[1]
Iubaltiana was also the seat of an ancient Christian bishopric,[2] governed under the Bishop of Carthage.[3] It was one of several bishoprics in what is today the Kairouan city area.
Today the bishopric survives as a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church and the current bishop is Luis Manuel Alí Herrera who succeeded Karl-Josef Rauber in 2015.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Titular Episcopal See of Iubaltiana.
- ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931).
- ^ Joseph Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticae, Volume 3 (Straker, 1843) p231.
- ^ Titular Episcopal See of Iubaltiana at catholic-hierarchy.org.