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Henchir-Belli, also known as Beled Belli, is a location and archaeological site in
Tunisia.
History
Known as Belali it was a
Roman-era
civitas in the
Roman province of
Africa Proconsularis.
[1] Column ruins of an ancient
temple/
church are still found in situ.
[2]
The ancient city was also the seat of an ancient
bishopric,
[3]
[4] in the
ecclesiastical province of
Carthage.
[5] The only known
bishop from antiquity is Adeodato (
fl.411). The
bishopric survives today as a
titular see of the
Roman Catholic Church,
[6]
[7]
Carlos Alberto de Pinho Moreira Azevedo being
bishop since 2004.
[8]
References
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^ Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 32 E4.
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^ Michael Greenhalgh, The Military and Colonial Destruction of the Roman Landscape of North Africa. (BRILL, 8 May 2014 ) p90.
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^
Titular Episcopal See of Belali.
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^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 464.
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^
Belali at catholic-hierarchy.org.
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^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p98-99.
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^ David M. Cheney
Belali at catholic-hierarchy.org.
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^ Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 179, Number 14,844.