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Africa Proconsularis (125 AD)
Semta was a
Roman era
Municipium also known as Augustum Semta in
Africa Proconsularis that is tentatively identified with ruins at Henchir Zemba (
Dzemda )
[1]
Carthage ,
Tunisia near the
Oued el Kebir 20 km (12 mi) southwest of
Zaghouan
[2] at 36.269282, 9.887345.
[3]
Ruins
The site has been excavated and those excavations revealed three different building complexes:
[4]
a 40 m × 50 m (130 ft × 160 ft) rectangular building,
a 4 m (13 ft) high mausoleum and,
two further buildings, one of which is called the
Byzantine fortress, measuring 40 m × 30 m (131 ft × 98 ft).
Numerous inscriptions have been found there.
[5]
Bishopric
The ancient city was also the seat of an ancient
bishopric
[6] in the
ecclesiastical province of
Carthage .
[7]
[8]
[9]
Only two bishops are known from Semta. The Catholic Maggiorino attended the
Council of Carthage (411) , as at that time the city had no Donatist bishops. Florenzio took part in the
anti-Monothelite
Council of Carthage (646) . The current bishop is
Juan Gómez .
[10]
[11]
References
^ Brent D. Shaw,
Sacred Violence: African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine (Cambridge University Press, 2011 ).
^
Barington Altas .
^
"Semta, Henchir-Dzemda – Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire" .
^
Semta, Henchir Dzemda .
^ Louis Poinssot & Robert Lantier,
Q. Geminius Sabinus, Princeps peregrinorum Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (1923) Vol 67, Num 3 pp. 197-201.
^
Semta at catholic-hierarchy.org.
^
"Apostolische Nachfolge – Titularsitze" . Archived from
the original on 2019-01-19. Retrieved 2016-12-21 .
^
Semta at gcatholic.org (English)
^ J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne , (Paris, 1912), p. 63.
^ Le Petit Episcopologe , Issue 127.
^ Revue des Ordinations Épiscopales , Issue 1955, Number 71.