Egnatia, Byzacena Explained

Egnatia, Byzacena is an ancient civitas of the Roman Province of Byzacena in North Africa.[1] [2] [3] [4] The exact location of the town is not known, but was in the Sahel region of Tunisia.The town was in ancient times the seat of an ancient Roman Catholic bishopric.[5] Today the bishopric survives as a titular Bishopric and the current bishop of the town is Dionisio Lachovicz.[6] [7]

Notes and References

  1. Joseph Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticæ vol.1 (H.G. Bohn, 1845), p. 422.
  2. Antoine Godeau, Algemeine Kirchengeschichte (Rieger, 1771), p. 43.
  3. Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon Aller Wissenschafften und Künste, Vol. 8 (1734), p. 323.
  4. Robert Knaplock, The Works, Volume 1 (Robert Knaplock, 1726), p. 411.
  5. Handbook of ecclesiastical geography and statistics of times of the apostles to the beginning of the sixteenth century, Volume 1 (H. Schultze, 1846), p. 133.
  6. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d2e13.html Egnatiensis
  7. Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 184, Number 15,079

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