Simidicca

Africa Proconsularis (125 AD)

Simidicca was a Roman era civitas of the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis.

The ancient city is tentatively identified with ruins at Henchir-Simidia Tunisia.

The city was also the seat of an ancient Christian bishopric, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Carthage. Only one bishop of this diocese is known Adeodatus, a Catholic bishop who participated in the Conference of Carthage of 411, which saw gathered together the bishops Catholics and Donatists in Roman Africa; the headquarters at that time had no Donatist bishops. The same Adeodatus was present at the Council of Carthage (419) held by St Aurelius. Today the diocese survives as a titular bishopric; the last bishop was Rumen Stanev, of Sofia.

References

  1. ↑ La sede titolare at www.gcatholic.org.
  2. ↑ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 468.
  3. ↑ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 280
  4. ↑ La sede titolare at www.catholic-hierarchy.org
  5. ↑ La sede titolare at www.gcatholic.org.