Henchir-Khachoum Explained

Official Name:Henchir-Khachoum
Other Name:Muzuca
Native Name:الخرطومأنقاض
Pushpin Map:Tunisia
Pushpin Label Position:bottom
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Tunisia
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Tunisia
Subdivision Type1:Governorate
Subdivision Name1:Sidi Bouzid Governorate
Population Blank1 Title:Ethnicities
Population Blank1:Arab
Population Blank2 Title:Religions
Population Blank2:Islam
Population Density Blank1 Km2:55.11
Timezone:CET
Utc Offset:1
Coordinates:35.2314°N 9.1294°W
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Postal Code:1250[1]

Henchir-Khachoum is a locality and series of archaeological sites in Sidi Bouzid Governorate modern Tunisia. The ruins are strewn along a tributary of the Oued El Hatech river east of Sbeitla. During the Roman Empire there was a Roman town of the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis, called Muzuca, one of two North African towns to bare that name.

In antiquity the town was also the seat of a Christian bishopric,[2] suffragan of the Archdiocese of Carthage.[3]

There are three documented bishops of Muzuca.

Today Muzuca in Proconsulari survives as titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church,[5] and the current bishop is Celmo Lazzari,[6] of San Miguel de Sucumbíos.[7] [8]

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.geopostcodes.com/Sbeitla Postal code of Sbeïtla
  2. http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t1217.htm Titular Episcopal See of Muzuca in Proconsulari
  3. J. Mesnage L'Afrique chrétienne, Paris 1912, p. 96.
  4. In 411 Muzuca seems to have had not Donatist bishops.
  5. David M. Cheney, Muzucensis in Proconsulari, at catholic-hierarchy.org.
  6. Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 204, Number 16,852.
  7. http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t1217.htm Titular Episcopal See of Muzuca in Proconsulari
  8. David M. Cheney, Muzucensis in Proconsulari, at catholic-hierarchy.org.