Boreum, Cyrenaica
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Boreum was a city and diocese in Roman Libya. It is now a Roman Catholic titular see.
Its modern location is Tabibbi, in northern modern Libya.
History
Boreum was important enough in the Roman province of Libya Superior (Libya Pentapolitana; part of Cyrenaica) to become one of the suffragan sees in this province, which depended directly on the Patriarchate of Alexandria (in Egypt) without a proper Metropolitan, but faded like most bishoprics in Roman Africa.Pius Bonifacius Gams, [http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/doccontent?id=65154&dirids=1 Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae], (Leipzig, 1931), p. 462.Michel Le Quien, [https://books.google.com/books?id=86weAemI-e4C Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus], (Paris, 1740), volII, coll. 627-630.A. van Lantschoot, v. Borium in [http://booksnow1.scholarsportal.info/ebooks/oca3/1/dictionnairedhis09bauduoft/dictionnairedhis09bauduoft.pdf Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques], vol.IX, (1937), col. 1255 Only one ancient bishop is known, the Arian bishop Senziano, mentioned in 325.
Titular see
In 1933 the diocese was nominally restored as a Latin titular bishopric of Boreum (Latin) / Borien(sis) (Latin adjective) / Boreo (Curiate Italian).[http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t0333.htm La diocesi] nel sito di www.gcatholic.org.[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d2b79.html David Cheney, Diocesi di Boreo], su Catholic-Hierarchy.org
It is vacant, having had only these incumbents, all of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank:http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t0333.htm GCatholic
- Louis-Joseph-Ephrem Groshenry, Society of African Missions [S.M.A.) (1937.06.17 – death 1962.05.18) as first Apostolic Vicar of Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso, then French Upper Volta) (1937.06.17 – 1941.05.15) and as emeritate
- Sinforiano Lucas Rojo, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (O.M.I.) (1962.08.24 – death 1990.05.04) as Apostolic Vicar of Pilcomayo (Paraguay) (1962.08.24 – 1981.01.24) and as emeritate.
See also
References
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Sources and external links
- [http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t0333.htm GCatholic - data for all sections]