Unizibira
Unizibira was an ancient town of North Africa in the Roman and Byzantine era. Unizibira is identified with Henchir-Zembra[1] in modern Tunisia. The main archaeology of the town is the remains of a Roman amphitheater.
The city was also the site of an ancient Bishopric. The diocese Unizibira ( Latin : dioecesis Unizibirensis or Unuzibirensis) was in the Roman province of Byzacena, in the modern Sahel region of southern Tunisia.[2] [3][4][5] The diocese ceased to function in th eseventh century but a Titular diocese was established in 1933.
Bishops There are three known bishops of Unizibira. At the conference of Carthage of 411, which saw gathered together the Catholics and Donatists bishops of Roman Africa, he took part in the Donatist Massimino, no competitor Catholic.
Cipriano participated at the synod meeting in Carthage by the vandal king Huneric in 484, after which he was exiled. This bishop is also mentioned by Victor of Vita in its history of persecution vandale. A Bishop Cyprian is remembered in the Roman martyrology on the date of October 12 who may be him. A Third bishop known at Unizibira is Donato, who took part in the antimonotelita Council of 641 .
Today Unizibira survives as titular bishop ; the current owner bishop is Agapitus Enuyehnyoh Nfon, auxiliary bishop of Bamenda .
Known bishops
- Massimino (mentioned in 411 ) (Donatist Bishop)
- Cipriano (mentioned in 484 )[6]
- Donato (mentioned in 641 )
- Pius Bonaventura Dlamini, (14 December 1967 - 13 September 1981)
- Rémy Victor Vancottem (February 15, 1982 - May 31, 2010)
- Agapitus Enuyehnyoh Nfon, 8 April 2011
References
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- ↑ Unizibira at catholic-hierarchy.org site
- ↑ Unizibira at gcatholic.org site
- ↑ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae , Leipzig 1931, p. 470.
- ↑ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana , Volume I, Brescia 1816, p.359
- ↑ Felix Abbirita with Cyprian of Unizibira .
