Cincara Explained

During the Roman Empire Cincara,^[1] was a civitas of Africa Proconsularis.

The town was on the Medjerda river^[2] and therefore in the bread basket of Roman North Africa. The Ruins of Cincara can still be seen at Bordj Toumi in Tunisia.

Bishopric

Cincara was a seat of an ancient Christian diocese,^[3] of which we know two bishops, one donatist and one catholic indicating the controversy had reached the town. Both bishops attended the Council of Carthage in 411.^{[4] [5]}

Today Cincara survives (since 1933)as a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.^{[6] [7]}

• Restituto (fl 411)
• Campano (fl 411)(donatista)
• Bishop José Andrés Corral Arredondo (1989 – 1992)
• Bishop Roger Francis Crispian Hollis (1987 – 1988)
• bishop Ricardo Blanco Granda (1969 – 1986)
• Bishop Manuel Castro Ruiz (1965 – 1969)

Notes and References

1. http://imperium.ahlfeldt.se/places/22073.html Cincara
2. http://www.getamap.net/maps/tunisia/tunisia_(general)/_bordjtoumi/ ordj Toumi
3. J. Ferron, v. Cincari, in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. XII, Parigi 1953, coll. 833-834.
4. [Pius Bonifacius Gams]
5. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 140.
6. http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t0506.htm Cincari
7. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d3c47.html Cincara