Auzegera was a Roman-Berber town in the province of Africa Proconsularis and in late antiquity Byzacena. It was a Catholic Church diocese.
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The town has been tentatively identified with the ruins at Henchir-El-Baguel in modern Tunisia. It was during the Roman Empire on the Limes Tripolitanus,[1] sitting astride a wadi named after the town.[2]
Auzegera was also the seat of an ancient Catholic bishopric,[3][4][5] under Carthage.[6]
The diocese had two known bishops. Donato was a Donatist bishop at the conference of Carthage (411) as a Donatist representative of the city. There was no Catholic competitor.[7] In 484 Villatico was among the Catholic bishops summoned to Carthage by the Vandal king Huneric.[8] he was then sent into exile.
Today the bishopric survives as a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church. The current bishop is Juan Armando Pérez Talamantes.[9]
References
edit- ^ Pol Trousset, Recherches sur le limes tripolitanus du chott El-Djerid à la frontière tuniso-libyenne, Études d'antiquités africaines (1974) Vol 2.
- ^ Ouadenine - Outaiet Ben Nejma: Tunisia.
- ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 464.
- ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 89.
- ^ Auguste Audollent, v. Auzagerensis in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. V, 1931, col. 980.
- ^ Joseph Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticae; Or the Antiquities of the Christian ..., Volume 3 (Straker, 1843) p231.
- ^ Patrologia Latina, t. XI, col. 1346.
- ^ Patrologia Latina, vol. LVIII, coll.273 and 331.
- ^ Auzegera at www.gcatholic.org.