Boreum, Cyrenaica Explained

See Boreum for namesakes

Boreum was a city and diocese in Roman Libya. It is now a Roman Catholic titular see.

Its modern location is Tabibbi, in southern modern Libya.

History

Boreum was important enough in the Roman province of Libya Superior (Libya Pentapolitana; part of Cyrenaica) to become one of the suffragan sees in this province, which depended directly on the Patriarchate of Alexandria (in Egypt) without a proper Metropolitan, but faded like most bishoprics in Roman Africa.^{[1] [2] [3]} Only one ancient bishop is known, the Arian bishop Senziano, mentioned in 325.

Titular see

In 1933 the diocese was nominally restored as a Latin titular bishopric of Boreum (Latin) / Borien(sis) (Latin adjective) / Boreo (Curiate Italian).^{[4] [5]}

It is vacant, having had only these incumbents, all of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank:^[6]

• Louis-Joseph-Ephrem Groshenry, Society of African Missions [S.M.A.) (1937.06.17 – death 1962.05.18) as first [[Apostolic Vicar]] of Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso, then French Upper Volta) (1937.06.17 – 1941.05.15) and as emeritate
• Sinforiano Lucas Rojo, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (O.M.I.) (1962.08.24 – death 1990.05.04) as Apostolic Vicar of Pilcomayo (Paraguay) (1962.08.24 – 1981.01.24) and as emeritate.

See also

• List of Catholic dioceses in Libya

Sources and external links

• GCatholic - data for all sections

Notes and References

1. [Pius Bonifacius Gams]
2. [Michel Le Quien]
3. A. van Lantschoot, v. Borium in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol.IX, (1937), col. 1255
4. http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t0333.htm La diocesi
5. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d2b79.html David Cheney, Diocesi di Boreo
6. http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t0333.htm GCatholic