Afufenia (also called Afufeniensis) was a Roman era city in the province of Byzacena. Its exact location is unknown, but it would have been situated in central Tunisia.
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Afufenia was also the seat of an ancient Catholic bishopric.[1][2] and was mentioned by Optatus.[3] One bishop is known from Afufenia,[4] Mansueto, who was among the Catholic bishops summoned to Carthage in 484 by the Vandal king Huneric and then exiled. According to Mesnage[5] it would be the same Mansueto remembered by Vetus Romanum Martyrology as of September 6. Today Afufenia survives as a titular bishopric,[6] with the current bishop being Raúl Alfonso Carrillo Martínez, Vicar Apostolic of Puerto Gaitán.[7] He replaced Paul J. Bradley in 2004.
References
edit- ^ Auguste Audollent, v. Afufeniensis, in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. I, (Paris, 1909), col. 871
- ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), pp.70-71
- ^ M. Casauboni,Optati Afri Milevitani Episcopi de Schismate Donatistarum contra Parmenianum Donatistam libri septem. In eosdem notæ et emendations (1700).
- ^ Jean Louis Maier, The Episcopate of Roman, Vandal and Byzantine Africa (Swiss Institute of Rome 1973) p98.
- ^ J. Mesnage L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912), p.177
- ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae (Leipzig, 1931), p. 464
- ^ Afufenia at GCatholic.org.