Taborenta

Taborenta was among the many towns in the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis of sufficient importance to become a suffragan diocese of Carthage, but completely faded, possibly at the 7th century advent of Islam. It is tentatively identified with the ruins near Saida in modern Algeria.

The only historically recorded bishop of this African diocese, Victor, took part in the Council of Carthage called in 484 by king Huneric of the Vandal Kingdom, after which he was exiled like most Catholic bishops, unlike their Donatist heretical-schismatic counterparts.

Taborenta diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin titular bishopric of Taborenta (Latin = Curiate Italian) / Taborenten(sis) (Latin adjective),Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 468Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 293

The titular see has been assigned to:[http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t1683.htm Titular Episcopal See of Taborenta] at GCatholic.org.

• Bishop Jean-Baptiste-Adrien Llosa (1966.07.26 – resigned 1971.02.18)
• Bishop Wolfgang Rolly (1972.06.05 – death 2008.03.25)
• Archbishop Martin Krebs (2008-09-08 - present)

• List of Catholic dioceses in Algeria
• Catholic Church in Algeria

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• [http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t1683.htm GCatholic - (former and) titular see - consulted 22 May 2017]
• [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d2t09.html catholic-hierarchy.org - flawed]

; Bibliography

• Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 468
• Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 293

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