Praesidium Diolele, also known as just Præsidium, was a town of the Roman Province of Byzacena in North Africa during the Roman Empire.
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The location of the town was lost for some time though it is tentatively identified with the ruins at Henchir-Somâa.[1]
Fulgentius of Ruspe was from near this town.[2][3]
The town was also the seat of a Christian bishopric, Praesidium,[4] which survives today as an ancient suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church in North Africa.[5] The bishopric dates from the Roman era and a bishop called Faustus is known from this time. He was exiled by the Vandal King Huneric in 484AD.[6]
The current bishop is Roger William Gries of the United States.[7]
References
edit- ^ Titular Episcopal See of Præsidium.
- ^ Jonathan Conant, Staying Roman: Conquest and Identity in Africa and the Mediterranean, 439-700 (Cambridge University Press, 12 April 2012) p.100.
- ^ Allan Fitzgerald, John C. Cavadini, Augustine Through the Ages: An Encyclopedia (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1999) p373
- ^ Joseph Bingham, The antiquities of the Christian church (W. Straker, 1840) p 230.
- ^ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1)
- ^ Fulgentius, Selected Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 95) (CUA Press, 15 April 2010) p11.
- ^ Titular Episcopal See of Præsidium.