Voli

Volitanus also known as Voli and Bolitana[1] was a Roman era civitas (town)[2] of Africa Proconsularis,[3] a suffragan metropolis of Carthage in Roman North Africa.[4]

Not to be confused with VOLI.
Africa proconsularis SPQR.

Location

The town of Voli is now in modern Tunisia, though the exact location of Voli is not known for certain[5] The village of Sidi Medien Zaghouan province (latitude 36°20'3.57", longitude 10°5'22.15") has been suggested due to similarity of names. The issue with Sidi Medien is that here the Roman Era town appears to have been a colonia, by the name of Vallitanus[6] (Vallis) while the name of Voli was probably Bolitana.

Bishopric

The town was a seat of a Bishopric[7] in Africa Proconsularis and suffran to Cartagine, it remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.

Augustine records that the Diocese of Carthage celebrated the feast day of the martyrs of Bolitana[8] on 17 October.[9][10]

The deacon Peregrinus of Bolitana civitas who was martyred under Diocletian after his conviction by the proconsul Caius Annius Anullinus He has a feast day of 23 April.

In 411 rival bishops Crispus (Catholic) and Quodvultdeus (Donatist) attended the Council of Carthage (411).[11] The Council found for Crispus. In 418, Bishop Muranus (Catholic) attended the Council of Carthage, and in 484 Bonifatius (Catholic).[12] attended the Council of Huneric, king of the Vandals.[13]

The current bishop is Emil Paul Tscherrig, who replaced Francisco Javier Martínez Fernández (20 Mar 1985 – 15 Mar 1996).

References
  1. Journal of the constitutions and the decrees of the Councils and the Supreme Pontiffs of the letter (Jean Hardouin, Claude Rigaud (París).)p692.
  2. A. Harnack, The Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries, 2 volumes (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 9 Jan. 1997) p433.
  3. Paolo Chiesa, Pellegrino martire "in city Bolitana" and Pellegrino di un'altra African agiografia ad Aquileia? Analecta Bollandiana: Revue critique d'hagiography, ISSN 0003-2468, Vol. 116, no. 1, 1998, pp. 25-56.
  4. Sacrosancta Concilia Ad Regiam Editionem Exacta: Apparatus Primus, Volume 22 (Coleti Et Albrizzi, 1733).
  5. A. Harnack, The Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries, 2 volumes (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 9 Jan. 1997) p433.
  6. Vallitanus.
  7. notit. num 28, coll. carth. d. 1, c. 128, not. 146.
  8. Pierre-Marie Hombert, New research from Augustinian chronology (Institute of Augustinian Studies, 2000) p268.
  9. Optatus ii:4.
  10. A. Harnack, The Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries, 2 volumes (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 9 Jan. 1997) p.433.
  11. Optati Afri Milevitani Episcopi de Schismate Donatistarum contra Parmenianum, (1700) p444.
  12. Jean Hardouin, Claude Rigaud (París)Journal of the constitutions and the decrees of the Councils and the Supreme Pontiffs of the letter p57.
  13. Jean Louis Maier, The Episcopate of Roman, Vandal and Byzantine Africa p116.
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