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]
References
- ^ Titular Episcopal See of Mattiana, at GCatholic.org.
- ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 467.
- ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 217.
- ^ Mattiana at catholic-hierarchy.org.
- ^ Titular Episcopal See of Mattiana, at GCatholic.org.
- ^ Titular Episcopal See of Mattiana, at GCatholic.org.
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