Materiana
Materianawas a city in the lateRoman provinceofByzacena.Atitular see,it was located the centralSahelregion ofTunisia.
Ecclesiastical history
[edit]Materiana was anepiscopal seebut no longer has adiocesan bishop.Accordingly, it is included in theCatholic Church's list oftitular sees.[1] The only known bishop of this diocese from antiquity is Peregrino, who took part in the synod gathered in Carthage by the Vandal king ofHunaricin 484, after which he wasexiled.[2][3]
Today Materiana survives as atitular bishop's seat; the current titular bishop isAnton Ranjith Pillainayagam,auxiliary bishopofColombo.
References
[edit]- ^Annuario Pontificio 2013(Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013,ISBN978-88-209-9070-1)
- ^Pius Bonifacius Gams,Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae,(Leipzig,1931), p. 467.
- ^Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia 1816), p. 217.
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