Migirpa was an ancient Roman-Berber civitas in the province of Africa Proconsularis. It flourished from 30 BCE to 640 CE.[1] The town is identified as stone ruins near Carthage, Tunisia.[2][3]

Church use

Migirpa was also the seat of an ancient Christian diocese,[4][5] an episcopal see, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Carthage.[6] The Diocese of Migirpa (in Latin Rite Migirpensis) is a home suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.[7] There were five bishops documented in late antiquity at Migirpa and four in the 21st century.

Today Migirpa survives as a home suppressed and titular see of the Catholic Church. The current bishop is Andris Kravalis, of Riga.

References

  1. R.B. Hitchner Migirpa.
  2. Titular Episcopal See of Migirpa.
  3. Migirpa at catholic-hierarchy.org.
  4. Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 467.
  5. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), pp. 227–228.
  6. J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912), p. 211.
  7. David M. Cheney,Migirpa at catholic-hierarchy.org.
  8. Augustine, The Writings Against the Manichaeans, Chapter 9.—13
  9. Augustine, On Baptism, Against the Donatists, chapter 9.
  10. Brent D Shaw, Sacred Violence: African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine (Cambridge University Press, 2011) p360.
  11. Brent D Shaw, Sacred Violence: African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine (Cambridge University Press, 2011) p360.
  12. Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 215, Number 17,865.
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