Zarna was a Roman town of the Roman Empire during late antiquity. An exact location for the town has been lost to history,[1] although that it was in the Roman province of Africa Proconsolare means it must have been in northern Tunisia.
In antiquity the town was also the seat of a Christian bishopric,[2] [3] suffragan of the Archdiocese of Carthage. Only one bishop of this diocese is documented Vitale, who took part in the antimonotelita Council of Carthage of 646.
Today Zarna survives as a titular bishopric[4] of the Roman Catholic Church and the current bishop is Francisco Antonio Ceballos Escobar of Puerto Carreño.[5] who replaced Edmar Peron in 2016.[6]
References
- ^ Titular Episcopal See of Zarna, at GCatholic.org.
- ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 470.
- ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 369.
- ^ Zama at catholic-hierarchy.org
- ^ Titular Episcopal See of Zarna, at GCatholic.org.
- ^ Titular Episcopal See of Zarna, at GCatholic.org.