Usilla or Usula was a town in the
Roman province
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of
Byzacena, now Inchilla in
Tunisia
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Ptolemy
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mentions the town, which appears also in the ''
Tabula Peutingeriana'' and other geographical documents. These indicate that it was situated from
Thysdrus
Thysdrus was a Carthaginian town and Roman colony near present-day El Djem, Tunisia. Under the Romans, it was the center of olive oil production in the provinces of Africa and Byzacena and was quite prosperous. The surviving amphitheater is a W ...
(El Djem) and from
Thaenae
Thenae or Thenai ( grc, Θεναί), also written Thaena and Thaenae, was a Carthaginian and Roman town (') located in or near Thyna, now a suburb of Sfax on the Mediterranean coast of southeastern Tunisia.
Name
The city was founded with the P ...
(Sfax). The ruins of the town include those of a
Byzantine
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basilica.
[Sophrone Pétridès, "Usilla" in ''Catholic Encyclopedia'' (New York 1912)]
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Usula became a Christian bishopric, that is included in the Catholic Church
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's list of titular see
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s.[''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ), p. 1002]
The names of six of its bishops have been preserved:[
* Felix, who was at the Council of Carthage (256);
* Cassianus, at the ]Council of Carthage (349)
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Synod of 251
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;
* Theodore, one of the Donatist partisans of Maximianus, who at the Council of Cabarsussi (393) condemned Primianus, and in turn at the Council of Bagai (394) was condemned by the partisans of the latter, as one of the consecrators of Maximianus;
* Privatus, present at the Conference of Carthage (411)
The Councils of Carthage were church synods held during the 3rd, 4th, and 5th centuries in the city of Carthage in Africa. The most important of these are described below.
Synod of 251
In May 251 a synod, assembled under the presidency of Cyprian ...
;
* Victorinus, one of the Catholic bishops whom Huneric summoned to Carthage in 484 and then exiled;
* Laurentius, a signatory of the letter against the Monothelites that the bishops of Byzacene addressed to the Byzantine emperor in 641.
References
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Usula
Former Roman Catholic dioceses in Africa
Roman towns and cities in Tunisia
Ancient Berber cities
Archaeological sites in Tunisia