Tambeae was a

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located in the

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in Africa Proconsulare. It existed from the Roman era into

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Bishopric

Tambeae must have been of some importance as it was the

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of an

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which remains today as a

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of the

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. There are five documented bishops of this African diocese. *Secondiano took part in the council held in Carthage in 256 by St.

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to discuss the question concerning the lapsii. *Gemellio took part 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, a ...

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

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, and signed the deeds. *At the Carthage conference of 411, which saw the Catholic and Donatist bishops of Roman Africa gathered together, the town was represented by the Catholic bishop Sopater and the Donatist Faustino. *Servus Dei intervened at the synod gathered in Carthage by

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the

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king in 484, after which he was exiled. Today Tambeae survives as a titular bishop's seat;Die Apostolische Nachfolge
the current titular bishop is John Anthony Boissonneau, auxiliary bishop of Toronto. * Pedro Aguilera Narbona (1966 - 1968) * Francisco Raval Cruces (1968 - 1970) * Beato Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdamez (1970 - 1974) *

Angélico Sândalo Bernardino Angélico Sândalo Bernardino (19 January 1933 – 15 April 2025) was a Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, who served as bishop of Blumenau. Biography Angélico Sândalo Bernardino was born in 1933 in Saltinho de Piracicaba, Brazil, and was or ...

(1974 - 2000) * John Anthony Boissonneau, 2001

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{{reflist Archaeological sites in Tunisia Roman towns and cities in Africa (Roman province)