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Sinna was a
Sinna was a Roman era
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civitas of the Roman province
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of Africa Proconsularis
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This ancient city is tentatively identified with ruins at Calaat-Es-Senan in modern Tunisia
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The ancient town was also the seat of a Christian bishopric
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History
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(in Latin Rite Sinnensis) suffragan of the Archdiocese of Carthage
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. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, ''Africa christiana'', Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 282. The only bishop known of this diocese
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History
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is Victor, who attended the Council of Constantinople in 553. Sinna survives today as a titular bishop
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ric. Its current bishop is Arūnas Poniškaitis of Vilnius
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