Tulana

Africa Proconsularis (125 AD)

Tulana also known as Tulanensis was a civitas (town) of the province of Africa Proconsularis[1] during the Roman Empire.

Very little is known of the town. Its location is now lost and the town is recorded only through the Notitia of Africa and the records of various Church Council. We know of a bishop of the town called Paul in the early 5th century and another named Pascasius who was exiled by the Vandal king Huneric in 484 AD.[2][3][4] The ancient bishopric survives today as a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church and Otacilio Ferreira de Lacerda is the current bishop replacing Heinrich Timmerevers, in 2016.[5]

References

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  1. ^ Titular Episcopal See of Tulana at GCatholic.org.
  2. ^ Acta sanctorum: Acta Sanctorum Maii, Volume 18.
  3. ^ Jean Hardouin, Claude Rigaud (París), Acta conciliorum et epistolae decretales ac constitutiones summorum pontificum (Ex Typographia Regia, 1715) p6.
  4. ^ Johann Albert Fabricius, Jo. Alberti Fabricii SS. Theologiæ D. & Prof. Publ. Bibliotheca ..., Volume 12 (Sumptu Christiani Liebezeit, 1724) p140.
  5. ^ Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 164, Number 14,038.