During the Roman Empire Cincara,[1] was a civitas of Africa Proconsularis.

Africa Proconsularis (125 AD)

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

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Cincara 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]

References

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  1. ^ Cincara, Roman North Africa
  2. ^ ordj Toumi, at getamap.net.
  3. ^ J. Ferron, v. Cincari, in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. XII, Parigi 1953, coll. 833-834.
  4. ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 465.
  5. ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 140.
  6. ^ Cincari, at gcatholic.org.
  7. ^ Cincara, catholicheirachy.org.