Thenae
Thenae was a Roman era town tentatively identified with Henchir-Tina in modern Tunisia.[1]
Remains include a bath house, domus, city walls and housing. The town is on the Mediterranean coast.[2] In the ruins are the remains of an early Christian basilica. According to the Life of St. Fulgentius of Ruspe, a council was held at Tene (Thenitanum concilium).
There are six documented bishops of this ancient diocese.
- Eucrazio assisted the council in Carthage in 256 called by St. Cyprian to discuss the question concerning the lapsii.
- At the Carthage conference of 411, between the Catholic and Donatist bishops of Roman Africa, the Catholic Latonio and the Donatist Securo both represented the town.
- Pascasio took part in the synod gathered in Carthage by Huneric the Vandal king in 484, after which Pascasio was exiled.
- Finally, Pontian intervened at the Carthaginian council of 525 and
- Felix attended the antimonotelite council of 646.
Today Tene survives as a titular bishop's seat; the current titular bishop is Marian Duś, former auxiliary bishop of Warsaw.
The town was from antiquity the seat of a Christian bishopric which survives today as a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.[3]
- Thomas (Franz Xaver) Spreiter, (1906 - 1944 )
- Louis Francis Kelleher (1945 - 1946)
- Thomas Joseph McDonough (1947 - 1960)
- Paolo Ghizzoni (1961 - 1972)
- Andrzej Maria Deskur (1974 - 1985)
- Marian Duś, (1985-current
References
- ^ Anna Leone, Changing Townscapes in North Africa from Late Antiquity to the Arab Conquest (Edipuglia srl, 2007 ISBN 9788872284988) p354.
- ^ Victor Chapot, The Roman World (Biblo & Tannen Publishers, 1928) p385.
- ^ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1).
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