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 | |
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  Henchir-Khachoum Location in Tunisia | |
| Coordinates: 35°13′53″N 9°7′46″E / 35.23139°N 9.12944°E | |
| Country |  Tunisia |
| Governorate | Sidi Bouzid Governorate |
| Population | |
| • Ethnicities | Arab |
| • Ethnicities density | 55.11/km2 (142.7/sq mi) |
| • Religions | Islam |
| Time zone | UTC1 (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.
- Gennaro took part in the Council of Carthage (256) called by St. Cyprian to discuss the question of the lapsi.
- The Catholic bishop Rufiniano who attended the Council of Carthage (411),[4] and the Council of Carthage (419) called by Saint Aurelius.
- Felice took part in the synod of 484 called by the Vandal king Huneric, after which Felice was exiled.
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
editReferences
edit- ^ Postal code of Sbeïtla, GeoPostcodes
- ^ Titular Episcopal See of Muzuca in Proconsulari at GCatholic.org.
- ^ J. Mesnage L'Afrique chrétienne, Paris 1912, p. 96.
- ^ In 411 Muzuca seems to have had not Donatist bishops.
- ^ David M. Cheney, Muzucensis in Proconsulari, at catholic-hierarchy.org.
- ^ Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 204, Number 16,852.
- ^ Titular Episcopal See of Muzuca in Proconsulari at GCatholic.org.
- ^ David M. Cheney, Muzucensis in Proconsulari, at catholic-hierarchy.org.