Henchir-Belli
Henchir-Belli, also known as Beled Belli, is a location and archaeological site in Tunisia.
History
Known as Belali it was a Roman-era civitas in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis.[1] Column ruins of an ancient temple/church are still found in situ.[2]
The ancient city was also the seat of an ancient bishopric,[3][4] in the ecclesiastical province of Carthage.[5] The only known bishop from antiquity is Adeodato (fl.411). The bishopric survives today as a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church,[6][7] Carlos Alberto de Pinho Moreira Azevedo being bishop since 2004.[8]
References
- ^ Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 32 E4.
- ^ Michael Greenhalgh, The Military and Colonial Destruction of the Roman Landscape of North Africa. (BRILL, 8 May 2014 ) p90.
- ^ Titular Episcopal See of Belali.
- ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 464.
- ^ Belali at catholic-hierarchy.org.
- ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p98-99.
- ^ David M. Cheney Belali at catholic-hierarchy.org.
- ^ Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 179, Number 14,844.
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