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Dhorbania, also known as ''Henchir Oued Nebhana'', is a village and locality in
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{{coord missing, Tunisia Populated places in Tunisia
Dhorbania, also known as ''Henchir Oued Nebhana'', is a village and locality in Tunisia
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. It's also the site of Ancient city and former bishopric Bahanna, now a Latin Catholic titular see
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Location
Dhorbania is in theKairouan Governorate
Kairouan Governorate ( ') is one of the twenty-four governorates of Tunisia. It is landlocked and in the centre-east of the country. It covers an area of 6,712 km2 and has a population of 570,559 (2014 census). The narrower province of Sous ...
of Tunisia
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, North Africa
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. It is located at latitude
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36.19392 n and Longitude
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10.02064 e, in the hinterland
Hinterland is a German word meaning "the land behind" (a city, a port, or similar). Its use in English was first documented by the geographer George Chisholm in his ''Handbook of Commercial Geography'' (1888). Originally the term was associated ...
of the Gulf of Hammamet, and south of Tunis
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. It is on the Oued Nebhana
Nebhana Oued is a Wadi, stream in central Tunisia at Latitude 35 ° 55'22.27 and Longitude 10 ° 1'29.39 ". Beginning about 59 meters above sea level, it flows into the Mediterranean Sea at the Gulf of Hammamet.
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Stream, and it has a post code
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of 1160 in the Tunisia
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n postal service.
History
Ruins of the city include aChristian
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basilica
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, baptistry
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, an Olive press and a bridge
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over the stream.
The Arab general Uqba ibn Nafi
ʿUqba ibn Nāfiʿ ibn ʿAbd al-Qays al-Fihrī al-Qurashī ( ar, عقبة بن نافع بن عبد القيس الفهري القرشي, ʿUqba ibn Nāfiʿ ibn ʿAbd al-Qays al-Fihrī), also simply known as Uqba ibn Nafi, was an Arab general ser ...
lead Arab forces into the region in 670 AD.
Ecclesiastical History
Bahanna was important enough in the lateRoman province
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of Byzacena to become one of the suffragan
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In the Anglican Communion, a suffragan bishop is a bishop who is subordinate to a metropolitan bishop or diocesan bishop (bishop ordinary) and so is not normally jurisdictiona ...
bishoprics of its capital Hadrumetum
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(modern Sousse)'s Metropolitan Archbishopric, but like most faded, presumably under Islam.Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin Catholic titular bishopric (Curiate Italian Baanna). It had had the following incumbents, all of the fitting episcopal (lowest) rank : * Noël Boucheix, S.M.A. (1969.01.01 – 1976.08.06) * James Odongo (1964.11.25 – 1968.08.19) (later Archbishop) * Philip James Benedict Harvey (1977.03.28 – 2003.02.02) *Christopher Charles Prowse
Christopher Charles Prowse (born 14 November 1953 in East Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian Roman Catholic bishop. He is currently the archbishop of the Archdiocese of CanberraGoulburn; appointed to the post on 12 September 2013 and inst ...
(2003.04.04 – 2009.06.18) as Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne
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(Australia) (2003.04.04 – 2009.06.18); later Bishop of Sale (Australia) (2009.06.18 – 2013.09.12), Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn (Australia) (2013.09.12 – ...)
* Thomas Vũ Đình Hiệu (2009.07.25 – 2012.12.24)
* Titus Joseph Mdoe (2013.02.16 – 2015.10.15)
* Volodymyr Hrutsa
Bishop Volodymyr Hrutsa ( uk, Володимир Груца; born 19 August 1976 in Dobromyl, Lviv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch as the Titular Bishop of Bahanna and Auxiliary bisho ...
, C.Ss.R.
The Redemptorists officially named the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer ( la, links=no, Congregatio Sanctissimi Redemptoris), abbreviated CSsR,is a Catholic clerical religious congregation of pontifical right for men (priests and brother ...
(2016.01.16 – )
References
Source and External links
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{{coord missing, Tunisia Populated places in Tunisia