Medeli was an ancient

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of the

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. It has been tentatively identified with Henchir-Mencoub and lasted through the

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and

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empires. The ancient city was also the

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of an ancient

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the suffragan of the

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. It is difficult to attribute with certainty the bishops to the diocese of Medeli, because of the different variants reported in the

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s. Mesnage assigns Iader, who took part in the

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of St.

Cyprian Cyprian (; ; to 14 September 258 AD''The Liturgy of the Hours according to the Roman Rite: Vol. IV.'' New York: Catholic Book Publishing Company, 1975. p. 1406.) was a bishop of Carthage and an early Christian writer of Berbers, Berber descent, ...

to discuss the question of the lapsi while Morcelli and Jaubert put this bishop to the diocese of Midila in Numidia. The

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Bishop, Liberal, took part in the

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. (The city appears to have had no Catholic bishop at this time). Bishop Felicissimo, intervened at the

Council of Carthage (525) The Councils of Carthage were church synods held during the 3rd, 4th, and 5th centuries in the city of Carthage in Africa. The most important of these are described below. Synod of 251 In May 251 a synod, assembled under the presidency of Cyprian ...

though Morcelli attributes this to a hypothetical Bishop Diocese of Sedela not documented otherwise. Today Medeli survives as titular see. Since 2015 the titular bishop of Medeli has been

Zbigniew Zieliński Zbigniew Zieliński (born 14 January 1965) is a Polish prelate of the Catholic Church who has been named metropolitan archbishop of Poznań. He was bishop of the Diocese of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg from 2023 to 2025, after serving as bishop coadjutor ...

, auxiliary bishop of Gdańsk.

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