Aeliae
AeliaeorÆliæwas aRoman-eracityin theprovinceofByzacena.[1]
The town must have been of some importance as it was made abishopricearly after theCouncil of Nicaeaand it was aCatholicdiocese throughoutantiquity.
Its exact location is tentatively given as ruins nearHenchir-Mraba[2][3]southeast ofOuled Chamekh,between lakeSebkhet CheritaandSebkhet de Sidi El Haniin the central part of what is todayMahdia Governorate,Tunisia.[4]
Aeliae was also theseatof an ancient Christianbishopric.There are threebishopsdocumented as residing in Aeliae during antiquity.[5][6]
- TheCatholicFascinullo intervened at theConference of Carthage of 411,between Catholic andDonatistbishops ofRoman North Africa
- The Bishop Donaziano participated in thesynod assembled in Carthage in 484by thearianKingHunerictheVandal,after which Donaziano was exiled.
- Bishop Constantine took part in the anti-monotheisticCouncil of Carthage (641).
Since 1933 Aeliae has been atitular bishopric.Since 2019 the title has been held by Ricardo Augusto Rodríguez Álvarez, Auxiliary Bishop of Lima, Peru.[7]
References
[edit]- ^Aeliaeat gcatholic.org.
- ^It Ant55.4
- ^E. Babelon, R. Cagnat and S. Reinach,Atlas archéologique de la Tunisie (1:50,000),Paris, 1892–1913 73.19-20.
- ^Auguste Audollent, v. Abaradirensis, inDictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques,vol. I, (Paris, 1909), col. 13
- ^Pius Bonifacius Gams,Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae,(Leipzig, 1931), p. 465.
- ^Stefano Antonio Morcelli,Africa christiana,Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), pp. 154–155.
- ^"Resignations and Appointments, 13.04.2019"(Press release).Holy See Press Office.13 April 2019.Retrieved10 May2020.
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