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The Diocese of Midica (in
''Africa christiana''
Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 226. The only known bishop of this African diocese is the
The Diocese of Midica (in Latin
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: Dioecesis Midicensis) is a suppressed venue and head office of the Catholic Church. Midica, near Sfax
Sfax (; ar, صفاقس, Ṣafāqis ) is a city in Tunisia, located southeast of Tunis. The city, founded in AD849 on the ruins of Berber Taparura, is the capital of the Sfax Governorate (about 955,421 inhabitants in 2014), and a Mediterrane ...
in today's Tunisia
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, is an ancient
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episcopal seat of the province
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of Byzacena
Byzacena (or Byzacium) ( grc, Βυζάκιον, ''Byzakion'') was a Late Roman province in the central part of Roman North Africa, which is now roughly Tunisia, split off from Africa Proconsularis.
History
At the end of the 3rd century AD, t ...
.Stefano Antonio Morcelli''Africa christiana''
Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 226. The only known bishop of this African diocese is the
Donatist
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bishop
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In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is c ...
Mark, who took part in the 411 Carthaginian conference, between the Catholic and Donatist bishops. The seat on that occasion had no Catholic bishops.
Today Midica survives as a titular bishop
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ric and the current bishop
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In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is c ...
is Leonard William Kenney, auxiliary bishop of Birmingham
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.References
{{reflist Catholic titular sees in Africa Former Roman Catholic dioceses in Africa Roman towns and cities in Tunisia Archaeological sites in Tunisia Ancient Berber cities Ancient cities