Cilibia, Africa

Cilibia was an Ancient city and bishopric in Roman North Africa, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.

History

Cilibia, probably at the site of Henchir-Kelbia in present Tunisia, was among the many cities in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis that were important enough to become a suffragan diocese of the Metropolitan of Carthage, in the papal sway.

Three of its bishops are historically documented, including a schismatic:

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin titular bishopric of Cilibia (Latin = Curiate Italian) / {[lang|lat|italic=no|Cilibien(sis)}} (Latin adjective).

It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting episcopal (lowest) rank:

See also

  • List of Catholic dioceses in Tunisia

References

    Bibliography
    • Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 465
    • Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 139
    • J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, Paris 1912, p. 93
    • J. Ferron, lemma 'Cilibiensis', in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. XII, Paris 1953, coll. 830-831
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