Mimiana
.svg)
Mimiana was a Roman town in the Roman province of Byzacena. The exact location of the town is not currently known.
Bishopric
[edit]Mimiana was the center of an ancient Christian bishopric during the Byzantine Empire and Vandal Kingdom.[1][2] There are only three modern bishops and only one ancient bishop known for the diocese.[3]
- Bishop Robert Brahm
- Titular bishop: Bishop Simeon O. Valerio (1973–2003)
- Titular archbishop Henri Audrain (1968–1970)
- Titular bishop Georges-Auguste Louis (1965–1967)
- Secundianus of Mimiana, was one of the first victims of the persecution by Huneric the Arian, and who was beaten with clubs and sent into exile.[4][5][6]
References
[edit]- ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 467
- ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 230
- ^ Titular Episcopal See of Mimiana, at GCatholic.org.
- ^ Vitor of Vita, History of the Vandal Persecution, p40.
- ^ Leonard Ralph Holme, The Extinction of the Christian Churches in North Africa (Clay, 1898 ) p131.
- ^ John R. C. Martyn (Cambridge Scholars, 1 Dec. 2008) p44.