Marazanae was a Roman town of the Roman province of Byzacena[1][2] during the Roman Empire and into late antiquity.[3][4]
Location
The town was between Sufes and Aquae Regiae.[5][6]
The ruins at Henchir-Guennara,[7] (Tunisia) dating from the Roman Empire are tentatively attributed to Marazanae.[8] The town appears on the Antonine Itinerary[9] and is believed to have been on a crossroads during antiquity.
Bishopric
The town was also the seat of an ancient Christian bishopric.[10] During the Donatist controversy there were congregations both of Catholics and of Donatists in the town.[11] Marazane, perhaps identifiable with Henchir-Guenmara in today's Tunisia, is an ancient episcopal seat of the Bizacena Roman province.
There are five ancient documented bishops of Marazane.[12][13]
- Felice who took part in the Council of Carthage (256) called by Saint Cyprian to discuss the issue of the lapsii.
- At the Council of Carthage (411), between the Catholic and Donatists of Roman Africa the town was represented by the Catholic Eunomio and the Donatist Habetdeus.
- Vindiciano attended the synod assembled in Carthage by the Arian King Huneric of the Vandal Kingdom in 484, after which Vindiciano was exiled.
- Saturnino participated in the anti-monotheistic Council of 641.
Today the bishopric of Marazane survives as a titular bishopric[14] and the current bishop is Krzysztof Chudzio, auxiliary bishop of Przemyśl.
References
- ^ Entry at www.gcatholic.org.
- ^ Société de l'histoire de France, Volume 41 (La Société, 1845) p152.
- ^ Claude Lepelley, Xavier Dupuis, Frontières et limites géographiques de l'Afrique du Nord antique: hommage a Pierre Salama : actes de la table ronde réunie à Paris les 2 et 3 mai 1997 (Publications de la Sorbonne, 1999) p170
- ^ Edward White Benson, Cyprian: His Life, His Times, His Work: His Life, His Times, His Work (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 18 Oct. 2004) p603-604.
- ^ Konrad Mannert, Géographie ancienne des états barbaresques (Roret, 1842 - 778) p428.
- ^ Bulletin de la Société de géographie (Delagrave, 1835) p.356.
- ^ Henchir-Guennara: a Pleiades place resource.
- ^ Marazanae.
- ^ Conrad MANNERT, Joseph DUESBERG, Louis MARCUS (Professor of the German Language and Literature.)Géographie ancienne des États barbaresques, d'après l'allemand de Mannert [from the “Geographie der Griechen und Romer, etc.], par MM. L. Marcus et Duesberg, avec des additions et des notes par M. L. Marcus (Paris, 1842)
- ^ J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912), p. 208
- ^ Brent D. Shaw, Sacred Violence: African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine (Cambridge University Press, 2011)page.xv.
- ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 466.
- ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), pp. 213–214.
- ^ Entry at www.catholic-hierarchy.org