Ausafa

Ausafa

Ausafa

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Ausafa or Uzappa[1] was a Roman era town, in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis and in late antiquity Byzacena.

The town is tentatively identified with the ruins of Ksour-Abd-El-Melek near the town of Maktar in Siliana Governorate, northern Tunisia.

In antiquity the town was the seat of an ancient episcopal see of the Roman province of Byzacena.[2][3][4]

We know of two bishops of Ausafa. The first is Felix, who was present at the Council of Carthage (256), where he discussed the problem of the Lapsi.[5] Secondly Salvius Ausafensis participated in the Council of Cabarsussi, held in 393 by Maximianus, a dissident sect of the Donatists, and he signed the acts of that council.[6] Today Ausafa survives as a titular bishopric, the current bishop is Warlito Cajandig y Itcuas, Apostolic Vicar of Calapan.[7][8]

References

  1. [1]
    Charles Monchicourt. Kalaat-Senane. "Note sur l'orthographe et le sens de ce dernier mot." Revue Tunisienne. 1906; 13: p213–216
  2. [2]
    Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 464.
  3. [3]
    Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816) pp. 87-88.
  4. [4]
    Auguste Audollent, v. Ausafa in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. V, 1931, col. 765.
  5. [5]
    Patrologia Latina, t. III, col. 1110.
  6. [6]
    Patrologia Latina, XXXVI, col. 380.
  7. [7]
    Ausafa at www.gcatholic.org
  8. [8]
    Ausafa, at catholic-hierarchy.org.
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