Aïn Tebernoc Explained

Aïn Tebernoc is a former Catholic diocese and archaeological site in Tunisia.

History

Aïn Tebernoc has numerous Roman era ruins and is tentatively identified as the site of the ancient city of Tubernuca,[1] a municipum of the Roman Province of Africa Proconsolare[2] Numerous inscriptions in situ confirm the name and status of the Roman city.[3]

Following the Reconquista of Spain, a group of Andalusian Moors settled in its ruins at the end of the 15th century.

Ancient Tubernuca was also the seat of an ancient Catholic Bishopric.[4] It was a suffragan of Carthage, which survives today as a titular Bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church. On one bishop from antiquity is known to us, Repositus, a correspondent with Cyprian.[5] The current bishop of the Bishopric is Antuan Ilgit, auxiliary bishop of Apostolic Vicariate of Anatolia since 2023.

Notes and References

  1. Reinhart Herzog, Peter Lebrechtschmidt, [Handbook of the Latin Literature of Antiquity, Issue 5 ] (CHBeck, 1989).
  2. [Joseph-Anatole Toulotte]
  3. Joseph-Anatole Toulotte, Géographie de l'Afrique chrétienne(Rennes, 1892) p299.
  4. http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t1867.htmTitular Episcopal See of Tubernuca
  5. [Joseph-Anatole Toulotte]