Crepedula was an ancient Roman–Berber civitas in the province of Byzacena in Africa Proconsularis. It was located in modern Tunisia. The town was also the seat of a Catholic diocese.[1][2][3]
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There are three known bishops of this diocese.
- The Catholic bishop Barbarianus Creperulensis attended the Council of Carthage (411), he had no Donatists competitors.
- Felix was among the Catholic bishops summoned to Carthage in 484 by the Vandal king Huneric.
- Finally, among the signatories of a letter against monothelitism dated 646 was Speranza.
Today Crepedula survives as titular bishopric and the current bishop is Karl Borsch,[4] of Aachen.[5]
References
edit- ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 465.
- ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia 1816), p. 146.
- ^ J. Ferron, v. Crepedula in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. XIII, (Paris 1956), coll. 1021–1022
- ^ David M. Cheney. "Crepedula (Titular See)". catholic-hierarchy. Retrieved 2017-02-26.
- ^ Titular Episcopal See of Crepedula, at GCatholic.org.