Aïn Tebernoc is a former Catholic diocese and archaeological site in Tunisia.

Africa Proconsularis (125 AD).

History

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Aïn Tebernoc has numerous Roman era ruins and is tentatively identified as the site of the ancient city of Tubernuca,[1] a municipum of the Roman Province of Africa Proconsolare[2] Numerous inscriptions in situ confirm the name and status of the Roman city.[3]

Following the Reconquista of Spain, a group of Andalusian Moors settled in its ruins at the end of the 15th century.

Ancient Tubernuca was also the seat of an ancient Catholic Bishopric.[4] It was a suffragan of Carthage, which survives today as a titular Bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church. On one bishop from antiquity is known to us, Repositus, a correspondent with Cyprian.[5] The current bishop of the Bishopric is Antuan Ilgit, auxiliary bishop of Apostolic Vicariate of Anatolia since 2023.

References

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  1. ^ Reinhart Herzog, Peter Lebrechtschmidt , [Handbook of the Latin Literature of Antiquity, Issue 5 ] (CHBeck , 1989).
  2. ^ Joseph-Anatole Toulotte, Geography of Christian Africa: Proconsular. Author: (Rennes, 1892) p312.
  3. ^ Joseph-Anatole Toulotte, Géographie de l'Afrique chrétienne(Rennes, 1892) p299.
  4. ^ Episcopal See of Tubernuca at GCatholic.org.
  5. ^ Joseph-Anatole Toulotte, Géographie de l'Afrique chrétienne(Rennes, 1892) p299.