Marazanae

Marazanae

Marazanae

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Marazanae was a Roman town of the Roman province of Byzacena[1][2] during the Roman Empire and into late antiquity.[3][4]

Africa Proconsularis.

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]

Today the bishopric of Marazane survives as a titular bishopric[14] and the current bishop is Krzysztof Chudzio, auxiliary bishop of Przemyśl.

References

  1. [1]
    Entry at www.gcatholic.org.
  2. [2]
    Société de l'histoire de France, Volume 41 (La Société, 1845) p152.
  3. [3]
    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
  4. [4]
    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.
  5. [5]
    Konrad Mannert, Géographie ancienne des états barbaresques (Roret, 1842 - 778) p428.
  6. [6]
    Bulletin de la Société de géographie (Delagrave, 1835) p.356.
  7. [7]
    Henchir-Guennara: a Pleiades place resource.
  8. [8]
    Marazanae.
  9. [9]
    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)
  10. [10]
    J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912), p. 208
  11. [11]
    Brent D. Shaw, Sacred Violence: African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine (Cambridge University Press, 2011)page.xv.
  12. [12]
    Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 466.
  13. [13]
    Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), pp. 213–214.
  14. [14]
    Entry at www.catholic-hierarchy.org
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