Tagarbala

Tagarbala was a Roman–Berber civitas of the province of Byzacena during late antiquity. It was a Roman Catholic diocese.

Africa Proconsularis (125 AD)

The town is identifiable with stone ruins at Bordj-Tamra,[1] Tamera in modern Tunisia.[2]

Roman Tagarbala was also the seat of an ancient Christian episcopal see.[3][4] One bishop is known of this ancient diocese, Fortunatianus, who participated in the synod in Carthage in 484 called by the Vandal king Huneric, after which Fortunatianus was exiled.

Today Tagarbala survives as titular bishopric and the current bishop is Gerard Alfons Kusz, of Gliwice.[5][1]

References
  1. Titular Episcopal See of Tagarbala, at Gcatholic.org.
  2. Tamera, Tunisia National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Bethesda, MD, USA.
  3. Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 468.
  4. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 298.
  5. Cheney, David M. "Tagarbala (Titular See)". Catholic-Hierarchy.


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