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Cebarades (in Latin Rite
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Cebaradesensis) was a Roman
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– Berber civitas
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in the province
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of Byzacena
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History
At the end of the 3rd century AD, t ...
in modern Tunisia
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The town was the seat of an ancient Roman Catholic
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*Rome, the capital city of Italy
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bishopric. Its diocese
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History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associat ...
is now a titular bishop
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ric. The current bishop is Joseph Galea-Curmi
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, auxiliary bishop of Malta
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