Aquae in Byzacena explained

The Diocese of Aquensis in Byzacena is a home suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.^[1]

The diocese was centered on Aquensis a civitas of the Roman province of Byzacena, which is tentatively identified with El Hamma in modern Tunisia.^[2]

Mesnage,^[3] attributes two bishops:

• Gennaro, who took part at the Council of Cabarsussi in 393, made up of bishops Maximianus, Donatist sect;
• Crescente, that Victor of Vita, in his history of the persecution of the Vandals, calls metropolitanus Aquitanae civitatis. Crescente name appears in the Roman martyrology on 28 November.

However, Morcelli,^[4] identifies only one bishop of this diocese – Vittoriano, who participated for the Catholic side, in the Council of Carthage (411).

Today Aquensis in Byzacena survives as titular bishopric^{[5] [6] [7]} and the current bishop is Nicolai Dubinin, O.F.M.Conv, Auxiliary Bishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Moscow.^[8]

Notes and References

1. [Pius Bonifacius Gams]
2. http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t0040.htm Titular Episcopal See of Aquæ in Byzacena
3. J. Mesnage L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912), p. 179.
4. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I (Brescia, 1816), pp. 79–80.
5. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d2a30.html Aquae in Byzacena
6. http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t0040.htm Titular Episcopal See of Aquæ in Byzacena
7. [Annuario Pontificio]
8. Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 222, Number 18,376.