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Sinna was a
Sinna was a Roman era
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civitas
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of the Roman province
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of Africa Proconsularis.
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
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Types of seat
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of a Christian bishopric (in Latin Rite Sinnensis) 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 ...
of the Archdiocese of Carthage. 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 Arūnas is a masculine Lithuanian given name and may refer to:
* Arūnas Bižokas (born 1978), ballroom dancer
*Arūnas Bubnys (born 1961), historian and archivist
* Arūnas Degutis (born 1958), politician
* Arūnas Dulkys (born 1972), economist a ...
of Vilnius
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References
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