Henchir Chigarnia
{{Short description|Archaeological Site}}
Henchir Chigarnia is an Archaeological site in Tunisia. It is identified with ruins near the modern town of Enfidha, Tunisia and represents a former Roman town of the province of Africa Proconularis.
Henchir Chigarnia is an Archaeological site and former civitas of the Roman Province of Africa proconularis.{{Cite web|url=http://imperium.ahlfeldt.se/places/22079.html|title=Uppenna, Henchir Chigarnia – Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire}}
The ruins include a large fortressAnna Leone, Changing Townscapes in North Africa from Late Antiquity to the Arab Conquest (Edipuglia srl, 2007) p271. and of a church in which were found mosaics with epitaphs of various bishops and martyrs.Susan T. Stevens, [https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-roman-archaeology/article/of-martyrs-and-mosaics-two-early-christian-churches-at-sidi-jdidi-aradi-and-henchir-chigarnia-uppenna-ben-aichakhader-abedben-fixot-michel-bonifay-michel-et-roucole-sylvestre-sidi-jdidi-i-la-basilique-sud-collection-de-lecole-francaise-de-rome-339-2004-pp-xiv-394-195-figs-of-which-13-in-colour-6-pls-isbn-2728306842-eur-95-raynal-dominique-archeologie-et-histoire-de-leglise-dafrique-uppenna-collection-tempus-presses-universitaires-du-mirail-toulouse2005-vol-i-les-fouilles-19041907-pp-306-57-figs-folding-plan-isbn-2858168067-eur-23-vol-ii-mosaiques-funeraires-et-memoire-des-martyrs-pp-xii-855-356-on-cd-499-printed-text-475-figs-of-which-274-on-cd-7-folding-plans-in-pocket-isbn-2858168075-eur-35/541A43A067F3A7176527844D69741B59 Of martyrs and mosaics: two Early Christian churches at Sidi Jdidi (Aradi) and Henchir Chigarnia (Uppenna)] Journal of Roman Archaeology Volume 20. There is also an Amphitheatre.[http://dare.ht.lu.se/places/24831.html Amphitheatre, Henchir Chigarnia].
The bishopric of Uppenna has been brought into use as a Roman Catholic titular see since 1967.