Avensa (Africa)
Avensa was a Roman and Byzantine era city, in Roman North Africa.
Medjerda river drainage basin
It is identified as the ruins of Bordj-Hamdouna, on the Oued Medjerda valley was near the province capital Sétif and was known to be the site of a Donatist community.[1]
The city was an ancient Bishopric, and several of the bishop's names have been recorded.
The Bishopric remains a titular See of the Roman Catholic Church suffragan to Carthage. The current (titular) Bishop is Bishop Kenneth Donald Steiner of Oregon.[6]
- Titular bishop Alfred Lanctôt, 13 Dec 1951 - 25 Mar 1953.
- Titular bishop Francis Valentine Allen 2 Jul 1954 - 7 Oct 1977
- Titular bishop Kenneth Donald Steiner 28 Nov 1977
References
- ↑ Saint Augustine, Robert B. Eno, Letters, Volume 6 (1*–29*) (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 81) (CUA Press, 2010) 186
- ↑ Saint Augustine, Robert B. Eno, Letters, Volume 6 (1*–29*) (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 81) (CUA Press, 2010) 186
- ↑ Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.), Expositions of the Psalms (New City Press, 2000)p125.
- ↑ Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong, Henry Louis Gates,Dictionary of African Biography, Volume 6 (OUP USA, 2012) p448.
- ↑ Jonathan Conant, Staying Roman: Conquest and Identity in Africa and the Mediterranean, 439–700 (Cambridge University Press, 2012)[Cambridge University Press, 2012 ) p163].
- ↑ Avensa (Titular See) at CatholicHierarchy.org.
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