Henchir-Khachoum is a locality and series of archaeological sites in Sidi Bouzid Governorate modern Tunisia. The ruins are strewn along a tributary of the Oued El Hatech river east of Sbeitla. During the Roman Empire there was a Roman town of the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis, called Muzuca, one of two North African towns to bare that name.

Henchir-Khachoum
الخرطومأنقاض
Muzuca
Henchir-Khachoum is located in Tunisia
Henchir-Khachoum
Henchir-Khachoum
Location in Tunisia
Coordinates: 35°13′53″N 9°7′46″E / 35.23139°N 9.12944°E / 35.23139; 9.12944
Country Tunisia
GovernorateSidi Bouzid Governorate
Population
 • Ethnicities
Arab
 • Ethnicities density55.11/km2 (142.7/sq mi)
 • Religions
Islam
Time zoneUTC1 (CET)
Postal code
1250[1]

In antiquity the town was also the seat of a Christian bishopric,[2] suffragan of the Archdiocese of Carthage.[3]

There are three documented bishops of Muzuca.

Today Muzuca in Proconsulari survives as titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church,[5] and the current bishop is Celmo Lazzari,[6] of San Miguel de Sucumbíos.[7][8]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Postal code of Sbeïtla, GeoPostcodes
  2. ^ Titular Episcopal See of Muzuca in Proconsulari at GCatholic.org.
  3. ^ J. Mesnage L'Afrique chrétienne, Paris 1912, p. 96.
  4. ^ In 411 Muzuca seems to have had not Donatist bishops.
  5. ^ David M. Cheney, Muzucensis in Proconsulari, at catholic-hierarchy.org.
  6. ^ Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 204, Number 16,852.
  7. ^ Titular Episcopal See of Muzuca in Proconsulari at GCatholic.org.
  8. ^ David M. Cheney, Muzucensis in Proconsulari, at catholic-hierarchy.org.