During the Roman Empire Cincara,[1] was a civitas of Africa Proconsularis.
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The town was on the Medjerda river[2] and therefore in the bread basket of Roman North Africa. The Ruins of Cincara can still be seen at Bordj Toumi in Tunisia.
Bishopric
editCincara was a seat of an ancient Christian diocese,[3] of which we know two bishops, one donatist and one catholic indicating the controversy had reached the town. Both bishops attended the Council of Carthage in 411.[4][5]
Today Cincara survives (since 1933)as a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.[6][7]
- Restituto (fl 411)
- Campano (fl 411)(donatista)
- Bishop José Andrés Corral Arredondo (1989 – 1992)
- Bishop Roger Francis Crispian Hollis (1987 – 1988)
- bishop Ricardo Blanco Granda (1969 – 1986)
- Bishop Manuel Castro Ruiz (1965 – 1969)
References
edit- ^ Cincara, Roman North Africa
- ^ ordj Toumi, at getamap.net.
- ^ J. Ferron, v. Cincari, in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. XII, Parigi 1953, coll. 833-834.
- ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 465.
- ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 140.
- ^ Cincari, at gcatholic.org.
- ^ Cincara, catholicheirachy.org.