Utimma

Utimma was an ancient city in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis[1] (now northern Tunisia ) during the Byzantine and Roman Empires.[2][3] the exact location of Utimma is lost to history but it is believed to be between Sidi Medien and Henchir-Reoucha in Tunisia.

Africa Proconsularis (125 AD)

The town of Utimma was also the home of a suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.[4][5] There are two known bishops of this diocese both attendee at the Council of Carthage (411), the Catholic Ottavio and Donatist Bonifacio.[6][7] Today Utimma survives as a titular bishopric,[8][9] the current bishop is Theodorus van Ruijven.[10]

References
  1. Bulletin of the Société de l'histoire de France (J. Renouard , 1844), p253.
  2. Utimma in catholic-hierarchy.org
  3. Apostolische Nachfolge – Titularsitze.
  4. Utimma in www.catholic-hierarchy.org.
  5. Utimma www.gcatholic.org.
  6. Jean Hardouin, Claude Rigaud (París), Acta conciliorum et epistolae decretales ac constitutiones summorum pontificum (Ex Typographia Regia, 1715) p16.
  7. Gosse, Alberts, The Great Geographical and Critical Dictionary (Hondt, 1739)
  8. Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p.470.
  9. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p.364.
  10. Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 199, Number 16,267.
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