Edistiana

Edistiana was an ancient Roman–Berber city in the province of Africa Proconsularis and in late antiquity of Byzacena. It was located in the modern Tunisia.[1] It was a former Catholic diocese.

Africa Proconsularis (125 AD)

Edistiana was a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church.[2][3][4]

Only one bishop of Edistiana is known, Miggin, a Donatist, at the Council of Carthage (411). Today Edistiana survives today as a titular bishopric;[5][6][7] the current titular bishop is Johannes Kreidler of Rottenburg–Stuttgart.[8]

References
  1. Edistiana diocese at www.gcatholic.org.
  2. Joseph Bingham, Origines ecclesiasticæ.
  3. Edistiana at catholic-hierarchy.org.
  4. "Google Translate".
  5. Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 465.
  6. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 153.
  7. J. Ferron, v. Edistianensis in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. IX, (1937), col. 1437.
  8. La diocesi at www.gcatholic.org.


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