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Febiana
Febiana was city and former bishopric in Roman North Africa, which only remains a Latin Catholic titular see. History Febina, in present-day Tunisia, was among the many cities of sufficient importance in the Roman province of Byzacena, in the papal sway, to become a suffragan diocese of the Metropolitan of Carthage (episcopal see), Carthage, but was to fade so completely its remains weren’t found, plausibly at the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb, seventh century advent of Islam. Two of its bishops are historically documented : * Successianus intervened at the Council of Carthage (484), Council of Carthage called in 484 by king Huneric of the Vandal Kingdom and was afterwards exiled, like most Catholic bishops, unlike their schismatic Donatist (heretical) counterparts (none reported for Febiana) * Sallustius participated in a Council of Carthage (641), Council of Carthage in 641 against the heresy monothelitism. Titular see The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as the La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurean Rugambwa
Laurean Rugambwa (12 July 1912 – 8 December 1997) was a Catholic Church in Tanzania, Tanzanian Catholic prelate who served as Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dar-es-Salaam, Archbishop of Dar es Salaam from 1968 to 1992. He was made a Cardinal (Catholic Church), cardinal in 1960 by Pope John XXIII, becoming the first such native African. Biography Laurean Rugambwa was born to an aristocratic family in Bukongo, Tanganyika (territory), Tanganyika (present-day Kagera Region of Tanzania), and baptized with his parentsTIME MagazineSeven New HatsMarch 14, 1960 at age 8, on 19 March 1921. After studying at Katigondo National Major Seminary in Uganda, he was Holy Orders, ordained to the Priesthood (Catholic Church), priesthood by Bishop Burcardo Huwiler, White Fathers, MAfr, on 12 December 1943. Rugambwa then did missionary work in West Africa until 1949, when he went to Rome to study at the Pontifical Urbaniana University, from which he obtained his Doctor of Canon Law, doctorate in cano ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
