Mattiana Explained

Mattiana was a Roman-Berber civitas in the province of Africa Proconsularis. The locale existed during late antiquity, and was situated in northern Tunisia.[1]

In antiquity, the town was also the seat of a Catholic bishopric,[2] [3] suffragan of the Archdiocese of Carthage.The historical sources mention only one known bishop, Marcellus, who took part in the Council of Carthage of 646.Today Mattiana survives as a titular bishopric[4] of the Roman Catholic Church and the current bishop is Carlos Alberto Salcedo Ojeda of Huancayo,[5] who replaced Edmar Peron in 2016.[6]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t1113.htm Titular Episcopal See of Mattiana
  2. [Pius Bonifacius Gams]
  3. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 217.
  4. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d2m70.html Mattiana
  5. http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t1113.htm Titular Episcopal See of Mattiana
  6. http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t1113.htm Titular Episcopal See of Mattiana