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Dhorbania, also known as ''Henchir Oued Nebhana'', is a village and locality in Tunisia. It's also the site of Ancient city and former bishopric Bahanna, now a Latin Catholic titular see.
GCatholic - Titular Episcopal See of Bahanna
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Dhorbania, also known as ''Henchir Oued Nebhana'', is a village and locality in Tunisia. It's also the site of Ancient city and former bishopric Bahanna, now a Latin Catholic titular see.
Location
Dhorbania is in the Kairouan Governorate of Tunisia, North Africa. It is located at latitude 36.19392 n and Longitude 10.02064 e, in the hinterland of the Gulf of Hammamet, and south of Tunis. It is on theOued 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.
During Roman Empire, Roman Times ...
Stream, and it has a post code of 1160 in the Tunisian postal service.
History
Ruins of the city include aChristian
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basilica, baptistry
In Christian architecture the baptistery or baptistry (Old French ''baptisterie''; Latin ''baptisterium''; Greek , 'bathing-place, baptistery', from , baptízein, 'to baptize') is the separate centrally planned structure surrounding the baptismal ...
, an Olive press and a bridge over the stream.
The Arab general Uqba ibn Nafi lead Arab forces into the region in 670 AD.
Ecclesiastical History
Bahanna was important enough in the late Roman province of Byzacena to become one of thesuffragan
A suffragan bishop is a type of bishop in some Christian denominations.
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 (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 (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.
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(2016.01.16 – )
References
Source and External links
GCatholic, with titular incumbent bio links
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