Abaradira#See also

{{Short description|Roman Catholic titular see}}

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Abaradira was a city in the Roman province of Byzacena.A. Notit. Byz. N. 2 (a. 482).Jean Louis Maier, The Episcopate of Roman, Vandal and Byzantine Africa (Swiss Institute of Rome, 1973) [https://translate.google.com.au/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=https://books.google.com.au/books%3Fid%3DAXwcAAAAMAAJ%26pg%3DPA95%26lpg%3DPA95%26dq%3DAbaradirensis%26source%3Dbl%26ots%3DoUoyB7kVWV%26sig%3D2lDgUzZ3vZmk3Mrxw-qjB91Upsw&prev=search p95]. Its exact location is unknown, but it would have been in the central part of what is today Tunisia in North Africa.Auguste Audollent, v. Abaradirensis, in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. I, (Paris, 1909), col. 13

After the fall of the Roman Empire, Abaradira was the seat of a Christian bishopric.Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p58-59. The historical records show only one bishop of Abaradira, a cleric named Praefectianus.Henri Irénée Marrou, André Mandouze, Anne-Marie La Bonnardière, Prosopographie de l'Afrique chrétienne (303–533) [https://books.google.com/books?id=APJVAAAAYAAJ&dq=Abaradirensis&pg=PA1246 p.1246].He was summoned by Huneric, ruler of the Vandal Kingdom in North Africa, to the Conference of Carthage in 484 CE. After the meeting, Huneric exiled Praefectianus and other bishops due to a major theological dispute.Theodore Ruinart, Viktor von Vita, The history of the persecution: Vandalicae in two distinct parts.

Abaradira survives as titular bishopric in the Roman Catholic Church. As of 2025, the title is held by Marko Semren, the auxiliary bishop of Banja Luka in Bosnia and Herzegovina.{{cite press release | publisher = Holy See Press Office | language = it | accessdate = 15 November 2018 | date = 15 July 2010 | url = http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2010/07/15/0463/01053.html | title= Rinunce e Nomine, 15.07.2010}}