Dhorbania
Dhorbania,also known asHenchir Oued Nebhana,[1]is a village and locality inTunisia.It's also the site of Ancient city and former bishopricBahanna,now a Latin Catholictitular see.
Location
[edit]Dhorbania is in theKairouan GovernorateofTunisia,North Africa.It is located atlatitude36.19392nandLongitude10.02064e,in thehinterlandof theGulf of Hammamet,and south ofTunis.It is on theOued NebhanaStream,[2][3]and it has apost codeof 1160 in theTunisianpostal service.[4]
History
[edit]Ruins of the city include aChristianbasilica,baptistry,anOlive press[5]and abridgeover the stream.[6]
The Arab generalUqba ibn Nafilead Arab forces into the region in 670AD.
Ecclesiastical History
[edit]Bahanna was important enough in the lateRoman provinceofByzacenato become one of thesuffraganbishoprics of its capitalHadrumetum(modern Sousse)'s Metropolitan Archbishopric, but like most faded, presumably under Islam.[7]
Titular see
[edit]The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin Catholictitular bishopric(Curiate ItalianBaanna).
It had had the following incumbents, all of the fitting episcopal (lowest) rank:
- Noël Boucheix,S.M.A.(1969.01.01 – 1976.08.06)
- James Odongo (1964.11.25 – 1968.08.19) (later Archbishop)
- Philip James Benedict Harvey (1977.03.28 – 2003.02.02)
- Christopher Charles Prowse(2003.04.04 – 2009.06.18) asAuxiliary BishopofMelbourne(Australia) (2003.04.04 – 2009.06.18); later Bishop ofSale(Australia) (2009.06.18 – 2013.09.12), Archbishop ofCanberra and Goulburn(Australia) (2013.09.12 –...)
- Thomas Vũ Đình Hiệu (2009.07.25 – 2012.12.24)
- Titus Joseph Mdoe (2013.02.16 – 2015.10.15)
- Volodymyr Hrutsa,C.Ss.R.(2016.01.16 – )
References
[edit]- ^AFRICA, XXIII, 2013 (INP-Tunis).
- ^Oued Nebhana.
- ^Oued Nebhana (stream).
- ^[1].
- ^Anna Leone, Changing Townscapes in North Africa from Late Antiquity to the Arab Conquest(Edipuglia srl, 2007) p 260.
- ^L'AFRIQUE CHRÉTIENNEÉVÈCHÉS & RUINES ANTIQUES 182.
- ^GCatholic - Titular Episcopal See of Bahanna.
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