Vegesela in Byzacena was a Roman Era town tentatively identified with ruins at Henchir-Recba in modern Tunisia.[1] The town was in the Roman province of Byzacena.

Africa Proconsularis (125 AD)

The ancient town was also the seat of an ancient Christian Bishopric, which survives today as a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.[2] René Coba Galarza is the current Bishop.[3][4] The diocese effectively ceased to function with the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb. Today the diocese of Vegesela in Byzacena (Latin: Dioecesis Vegeselitana in Byzacena) is a suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.[5][6]

There are only six documented bishops of Vegesela in Byzacena.


References

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  1. ^ Anna Leone, Changing Townscapes in North Africa from Late Antiquity to the Arab Conquest (Edipuglia srl, 2007) p354.
  2. ^ Apostolische Nachfolge – Titularsitze
  3. ^ Vegesela in Byzacena at catholic-hierarchy.org.(english)]
  4. ^ Vegesela in Byzacena at gcatholic.org
  5. ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 469.
  6. ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 349.