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Garriana was a Roman town of the Garriana
at catholic-hierarchy.org.
Garriana was a Roman town of the province
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of Byzacena
Byzacena (or Byzacium) ( grc, Βυζάκιον, ''Byzakion'') was a Late Roman province in the central part of Roman North Africa, which is now roughly Tunisia, split off from Africa Proconsularis.
History
At the end of the 3rd century AD, the ...
during late antiquity
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. The town has tentatively been identified with the ruins at Henchir-El-Garra in modern Tunisia
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. The name Henchir-El-Garra simply means the ''Ruins of Garria''.
Ancient Henchir-El-Garra was also the ecclesiastical seat of a Roman Catholic Church
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episcopal see
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Phrases concerning actions occurring within or outside an episcopal see are indicative of the geographical significance of the term, mak ...
. The only known bishop of this diocese was Secundus, who took part in the synod in Carthage in 484 called by the Vandal
The Vandals were a Germanic people who first inhabited what is now southern Poland. They established Vandal kingdoms on the Iberian Peninsula, Mediterranean islands, and North Africa in the fifth century.
The Vandals migrated to the area betw ...
king Huneric
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, after which Secundus was exiled. Today Garriana survives as a titular bishop
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ric and Rogelio Esquivel Medina
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*Rogelio Armenteros (born 1994), Cuban pitcher in Major League Bas ...
of Mexico is the current bishop.at catholic-hierarchy.org.
References
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