Egnatia, Byzacena

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.

Africa Proconsularis (125 AD)

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]

References

Joseph Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticæ vol.1 (H.G. Bohn, 1845), p. 422.
Antoine Godeau, Algemeine Kirchengeschichte (Rieger, 1771), p. 43.
Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon Aller Wissenschafften und Künste, Vol. 8 (1734), p. 323.
Robert Knaplock, The Works, Volume 1 (Robert Knaplock, 1726), p. 411.
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.
Egnatiensis.
Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 184, Number 15,079

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[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] Egnatiensis.

[7] Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 184, Number 15,079