Boreum, Cyrenaica
- See Boreum for namesakes
Boreum was a city and bishopric in Roman Libya, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
Its modern location is Tabibbi, in southern modern Libya.
History
Boreum was important enough in the Roman province of Libya Superior (Libya Pentapolitana; part of Cyrenaica) to become one of the suffragan sees in this province, which depended directly on the Patriarchate of Alexandria (in Egypt) without a proper Metropolitan, but faded like most bishoprics in Roman Africa.[1][2][3] We know of only one ancient Bishop, the Arian bishop Senziano, mentioned in 325.
Titular see
In 1933 the diocese was nominally restored as a Latin Titular bishopric of Boreum (Latin) / Borien(sis) (Latin adjective) / Boreo (Curiate Italian).[4][5]
It is vacant, having had only these incumbents, all of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank:[6]
- Louis-Joseph-Ephrem Groshenry, Society of African Missions [S.M.A.) (1937.06.17 – death 1962.05.18) as first Apostolic Vicar of Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso, then French Upper Volta) (1937.06.17 – 1941.05.15) and as emeritate
- Sinforiano Lucas Rojo, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (O.M.I.) (1962.08.24 – death 1990.05.04) as Apostolic Vicar of Pilcomayo (Paraguay) (1962.08.24 – 1981.01.24) and as emeritate.
See also
References
- ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 462.
- ^ Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, (Parigi, 1740),volII, coll. 627-630.
- ^ A. van Lantschoot, v. Borium in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol.IX, (1937), col. 1255
- ^ La diocesi nel sito di www.gcatholic.org.
- ^ David Cheney, Diocesi di Boreo, su Catholic-Hierarchy.org.
- ^ http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t0333.htm GCatholic