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Africa Proconsularis (125 AD)Edistiana was an ancient Roman–Berber city in the province of Africa Proconsularis and in late antiquity of Byzacena. It was located in the modern Tunisia.[1] It was a former Catholic diocese.
Edistiana was a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church.[2][3][4]
Only one bishop of Edistiana is known, Miggin, a Donatist, at the Council of Carthage (411). Today Edistiana survives today as a titular bishopric;[5][6][7] the current titular bishop is Johannes Kreidler of Rottenburg–Stuttgart.[8]
References
- ^ Edistiana diocese at www.gcatholic.org.
- ^ Joseph Bingham, Origines ecclesiasticæ.
- ^ Edistiana at catholic-hierarchy.org.
- ^ "Google Translate".
- ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 465.
- ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 153.
- ^ J. Ferron, v. Edistianensis in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. IX, (1937), col. 1437.
- ^ La diocesi at www.gcatholic.org.
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