Utimma

Africa Proconsularis (125 AD)

Utimma was an ancient city in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis[1] (now northern Tunisia ) during the Byzantine and Roman Empires.[2][3] the exact location of Utimma is lost to history but it is believed to be between Sidi Medien and Henchir-Reoucha in Tunisia.

The town of Utimma was also the home of a suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.[4][5] There are two known bishops of this diocese both attendee at the Council of Carthage (411), the Catholic Ottavio and Donatist Bonifacio.[6][7] Today Utimma survives as a titular bishopric,[8][9] the current bishop is Theodorus van Ruijven.[10]

References

  1. ^ Bulletin of the Société de l'histoire de France (J. Renouard , 1844), p253.
  2. ^ Utimma in catholic-hierarchy.org
  3. ^ Apostolische Nachfolge – Titularsitze.
  4. ^ Utimma in www.catholic-hierarchy.org.
  5. ^ Utimma www.gcatholic.org.
  6. ^ Jean Hardouin, Claude Rigaud (París), Acta conciliorum et epistolae decretales ac constitutiones summorum pontificum (Ex Typographia Regia, 1715) p16.
  7. ^ Gosse, Alberts, The Great Geographical and Critical Dictionary (Hondt, 1739)
  8. ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p.470.
  9. ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p.364.
  10. ^ Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 199, Number 16,267.