Henchir-Khachoum
الخرطومأنقاض
Muzuca
Henchir-Khachoum is located in Tunisia
Henchir-Khachoum
Henchir-Khachoum
Location in Tunisia
Coordinates: 35°13′53″N 9°7′46″E / 35.23139°N 9.12944°E / 35.23139; 9.12944
Country Tunisia
GovernorateSidi Bouzid Governorate
Population
  Ethnicities
Arab
  Ethnicities density55.11/km2 (142.7/sq mi)
  Religions
Islam
Time zoneUTC1 (CET)
Postal code
1250[1]

Henchir-Khachoum is a locality and series of archaeological sites in Sidi Bouzid Governorate modern Tunisia. The ruins are strewn along a tributary of the Oued El Hatech river east of Sbeitla. During the Roman Empire there was a Roman town of the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis, called Muzuca, one of two North African towns to bare that name.

In antiquity the town was also the seat of a Christian bishopric,[2] suffragan of the Archdiocese of Carthage.[3]

There are three documented bishops of Muzuca.

Today Muzuca in Proconsulari survives as titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church,[5] and the current bishop is Celmo Lazzari,[6] of San Miguel de Sucumbíos.[7][8]

See also

References

  1. Postal code of Sbeïtla, GeoPostcodes
  2. Titular Episcopal See of Muzuca in Proconsulari at GCatholic.org.
  3. J. Mesnage L'Afrique chrétienne, Paris 1912, p. 96.
  4. In 411 Muzuca seems to have had not Donatist bishops.
  5. David M. Cheney, Muzucensis in Proconsulari, at catholic-hierarchy.org.
  6. Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 204, Number 16,852.
  7. Titular Episcopal See of Muzuca in Proconsulari at GCatholic.org.
  8. David M. Cheney, Muzucensis in Proconsulari, at catholic-hierarchy.org.
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