Roman Empire - Africa Proconsularis (125 AD)

The Diocese of Carcabia is a

titular see A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular metropolitan" (highest rank), "titular archbis ...

of the

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. Historically, three bishops are mentioned being from Carcabia: *Victorian participated in the

Council of Cabarsussi Cabarsussi, was an ancient civitas (municipality) and bishopric in the Roman province of Byzacena (Roman North Africa), that is tentatively identifiable with ruins at Drâa-Bellouan in modern Tunisia. The current bishop is Terence Robert Curtin, ...

, held in 393 by Maximianus, a dissident sect of the

Donatists Donatism was a Christian sect leading to a schism in the Church, in the region of the Church of Carthage, from the fourth to the sixth centuries. Donatists argued that Christian clergy must be faultless for their ministry to be effective and the ...

, and they signed the acts; he was sentenced, along with the other bishops, in the Donatist

Council of Bagai A council is a group of people who come together to consult, deliberate, or make decisions. A council may function as a legislature, especially at a town, city or county/ shire level, but most legislative bodies at the state/provincial or nati ...

of 394. *At the Council of Carthage the

Donatist Donatism was a Christian sect leading to a schism in the Church, in the region of the Church of Carthage, from the fourth to the sixth centuries. Donatists argued that Christian clergy must be faultless for their ministry to be effective and the ...

bishop Donatian was an attendee. The diocese at that time had no Catholic bishops. *Simplicio attended the synod in Carthage in 484 called by the

Vandal The Vandals were a Germanic people who first inhabited what is now southern Poland. They established Vandal kingdoms on the Iberian Peninsula, Mediterranean islands, and North Africa in the fifth century. The Vandals migrated to the area bet ...

king

Huneric Huneric, Hunneric or Honeric (died December 23, 484) was King of the (North African) Vandal Kingdom (477–484) and the oldest son of Gaiseric. He abandoned the imperial politics of his father and concentrated mainly on internal affairs. He was ...

, after which Simplicio was exiled. Today Carcabia survives as titular bishopric;Titular Episcopal See of Carcabia
atGCatholic.org. the current bishop is

Manuel Nin Manuel Nin i Güell (born 20 August 1956), also known as Manuel Nin, is the Apostolic Exarch to Greece of the Greek Byzantine Catholic Church. Life Nin was born on August 20, 1956 in the town of El Vendrell in the Catalan province of Tarragona (S ...

, Apostolic Exarch of Greece.

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