Abbir Germaniciana

Abbir Germaniciana[1] also known as Abir Cella[2] is the name of an Roman and Byzantine era city in the Roman province of Africa proconsularis (today northern Tunisia).[3] The city was also the seat of a bishopric, in the ecclesiastical province of Carthage, and is best known as the home town of the Pre Nicaean father, Cyprian, who was bishop of Abbir Germaniciana around 250AD.

Location

The location of Abbir Germanicaina is unknown but:

Which ever location it was in, it was definitely on along the coastal hinterlands of the Maghreb.

Bishopric

The town was also the seat of an ancient Bishopric. The city appears to have been catholic before Diocletian Persecution but was taken into the Vandal Kingdom around 429AD, and with the arrival of the Islamic Armies at the end of the 7th century the bishopric ceased to effectively function. In 1933 the Diocese was re-established in name at least, as a titular see.[7]

Known Bishops

References

  1. Abbiritanus Germanicianorum
  2. Edward White Benson, Cyprian: His Life, His Times, His Work: His Life, His Times, His Work (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2004) p604
  3. Anna Leone, Changing Townscapes in North Africa from Late Antiquity to the Arab Conquest(Edipuglia srl, 2007) p90
  4. Adolf Harnack, The Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries, 2 Volumes (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 1997) p 425.
  5. Henri Irénée Marrou, André Mandouze, Anne-Marie La Bonnardière, Prosopographie de l'Afrique chrétienne (303-533)(Éditions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1982) p1315.
  6. Situation of the town of Théveste during the cutting of Africa by Genséric.
  7. Titular Episcopal See of Abbir Germaniciana at GCatholic.org.
  8. Pope St. Sixtus II at New Advent Catholic Ebcycolpedia.
  9. Vita of Cyprian , Cap. Xiv.
  10. Edward White Benson, Cyprian: His Life, His Times, His Work: His Life, His Times, His Work (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2004) p471.
  11. Cypr. Epistle. lvii., lxvii., lxx., lxxx.
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