Tabbora

Tabbora was a town in the late Roman province of Africa Proconsularis. The Catholic diocese that had its seat there was a suffragan of Carthage, the capital of the province.

Location

Tabbora is believed to have been situated in the vicinity of the stone ruins at Tembra, located west of Bijga (ancient Bisica) in the valley of Wadi Siliana, Tunisia.

Bishops

Two bishops are known:[1]

• Marinus, present at the Conference of Carthage (411), where his rival was Victor, also rival of the Bishop of Bisica;
• Constantine, who signed the letter from the bishops of the province to Patriarch Paul II of Constantinople, against the Monothelites (646).

No longer a residential see, Tabbora is included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees.[2]

References

1. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, pp. 292–293
2. Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 979

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Tabbora". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

External links

• Catholic Hierarchy page