Septimunicia () is a

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ric of the

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. The location is not certain, but assumed to be in Tunisia. Today Settimunicia survives as a titular bishopric and the current bishop is

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, of Cebu.

History

Septimunicia goes back to an earlier bishopric in the

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Byzacena Byzacena (or Byzacium) (, ''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, the Roman emperor Dioclet ...

in the

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of present-day

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. The exact location of the

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of the bishopric is unknown but it was supposed to be at the foot of a high mountain called Burgaon, which appears to be a branch of the Dsaletus, Mount Uselet.Christoph Cellarius, ''Notitia orbis antiqvi, sive, Geographia plenior'': Volume 2 (F. Gleditschii, 1732 ) p878. The ruins of Oglet-El-Metnem or Henchir-El-Bliaa in modern Tunisia, have both been suggested as its site. The only known bishop of this African diocese is Pascasio, who took part in the Council of Carthage called in 484 by King Huneric of the

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, after which he was exiled like most Catholic bishops, unlike their Donatist heretical–schismatic counterparts.

References

{{reflist Roman towns and cities in Tunisia Ancient Berber cities Archaeological sites in Tunisia Catholic titular sees in Africa