Tambeæ

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Tambeæ = Tambae was an ancient city and bishopric of Roman North Africa which remains only as Latin Catholic titular see.

History[]

Tambeae is located near Aïn-Beida and Henchir-Baboucha in modern Tunisia. It was, like many cities in the Roman province of Byzacena, important enough to become a suffragan of the metropolitan of Carthage, but would fade completely, plausibly at the seventh century advent of Islam.

Five of its bishops are historically documented :

• Secondianus attended the Council of Carthage in 256, called by Saint Cyprianus on the lapsi (Christians accepting forced pagan sacrifices to avoid martyrdom)
• Gemellius participated in the Council of Cabarsussi, held in 393 by the Maximianists, a dissident sect of Donatism, and signed the acts
• The Council of Carthage in 411, uniting all its Northern African bishops, was attended by the Catholic bishop Sopater, whose side prevailed, and by
  • his schismatic Donatist counterpart Faustinus, whose side's heresy was condemned as such
• Servus Dei intervened at the Council of Carthage in 484 called by Arian king Huneric of the Vandal Kingdom, and was exiled afterward like most Catholic bishops.

Titular see[]

The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin Titular bishopric of Tambeæ (Latin spelling) / Tambee (Curiate Italian) / Tambeæn(sis) (Latin adjective).

It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank :

• Pedro Aguilera Narbona (1966.11.21 – death 1968.01.23) as emeritus; previously Bishop of Iquique (Chile) (1941.09.15 – retired 1966.11.21)
• Francisco Raval Cruces (1968.04.02 – 1970.03.04) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan (Philippines) (1968.04.02 – 1970.03.04); later Bishop of Ilagan (Philippines) (1970.03.04 – 1973.08.22), Metropolitan Archbishop of Zamboanga (Philippines) (1973.08.22 – retired 1994.12.07), died 1997
• Blessed Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Goldámez (1970.04.25 – 1974.10.15) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of San Salvador (El Salvador) (1970.04.25 – 1974.10.15), also Secretary General of Episcopal Secretariat of Central America and Panama (1971 – 1972); later Bishop of Santiago de María (El Salvador) (1974.10.15 – 1977.02.03), Metropolitan Archbishop of above San Salvador (1977.02.03 – murdered 1980.03.24)
• Angélico Sândalo Bernardino (1974.12.12 – 2000.04.19) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of São Paulo (Brazil) (1974.12.12 – 2000.04.19); later Bishop of Blumenau (Brazil) (2000.04.19 – retired 2009.02.18)
• John Anthony Boissonneau (2001.03.23 – ...) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Toronto (Ontario, Canada) (2001.03.23 – ...), no previous prelature.

See also[]

• List of Catholic dioceses in Tunisia

Sources and external links[]

• GCatholic