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Africa Proconsularis (125 AD)
Lapda, was a
civitas (town) of the
Roman province of
Africa Proconsularis.
[1]
[2] Its exact location is now lost to history, though probably somewhere in central modern
Tunisia. Also known as Labdia.
[3]
[4]
Lapda was also the
seat of an ancient Christian
episcopal see,
[5]
[6] suffragan to the
Archdiocese of Carthage.
[7]
[8]
There are three bishops of
antiquity mentioned by the historical sources.
Today
[9] Lapda survives as a
titular bishopric and the current bishop is
José Mauricio Vélez García, of
Medellín.
References
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^
Lapda at catholic-hierarchy.org.
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^ Joseph Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticæ, Volume 2 (William Straker, 1834) p441.
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^ Joseph Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticæ, Volume 2 (William Straker, 1834) p446.
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^ Joseph Bingham, The works of the learned Joseph Bingham, M.A. (Robert Knaplock, 1726 ) p412.
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^
Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 466.
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^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), pp. 193–194.
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^
Lapda at catholic-hierarchy.org.
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^ Joseph Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticæ, Volume 2 (William Straker, 1834) p441.
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^ David Cheney,
Diocese of Lapda, at Catholic-Hierarchy.org.