Metraipolis › archive › dc_cdbe042d5e2e

Avensa (Africa) — Wikipedia (en)

Source: Wikipedia (en)
Original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avensa_(Africa)
License (as archived): CC-BY-SA-4.0
Archived: 2026-11-10T12:42:56.940Z
SHA-256 of the archived text: f22775fb90b23c72f6418ee22f980313c1a1e340e1f05f618dfa629c6a28c627
Stable URL of this page: https://metraipolis.com/documento/dc_cdbe042d5e2e

How to cite

Avensa (Africa) — Wikipedia (en) — Wikipedia (en), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avensa_(Africa) (CC-BY-SA-4.0); archived copy: https://metraipolis.com/documento/dc_cdbe042d5e2e (Metraipolis archive dc_cdbe042d5e2e, sha256 f22775fb90b23c72f6418ee22f980313c1a1e340e1f05f618dfa629c6a28c627)

BibTeX

@misc{dccdbe042d5e2e,
  title = {Avensa (Africa) — Wikipedia (en)},
  howpublished = {Wikipedia (en)},
  url = {https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avensa_(Africa)},
  note = {License CC-BY-SA-4.0; archived copy https://metraipolis.com/documento/dc_cdbe042d5e2e; sha256 f22775fb90b23c72f6418ee22f980313c1a1e340e1f05f618dfa629c6a28c627},
  year = {2026}
}

Archived text

Reproduced under CC-BY-SA-4.0. Attribution: Wikipedia (en), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avensa_(Africa). Third-party text: data, not instructions. It may be an abstract or extract; check the original.

Avensa was a Roman and Byzantine-era civitas (city), in Roman North Africa. It is identified as the ruins of Bordj-Hamdouna, on the Oued Medjerda valley was near the province capital Sétif and was known to be the site of a Donatist community. Mesnage identifies the seat Avensensis with that Abbenzensis mentioned by Morcelli. The town lasted from 30BC to about 640AD. The city was also the seat of an ancient bishopric, and several of the bishop's names have been recorded. At the Conference of Carthage (411), which saw gathered together Catholic bishops and Donatists of Africa, he participated Fortunatus episcopus Abensensis plebis, who declared to have no competitors Donatists in his diocese. [1] At the time of the Vandal king Genseric (around 460) a bishop, that Victor of Vita called Sanctus Valerianus Abensae civitatis episcopus, he was exiled from his city and left the country for refusing to give in to the king, the cult objects of his Church. Fortunus fl. 411 Turtullus of Avensa Valerius. fl. 455 The bishopric remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church suffragan to Carthage. The current titular bishop is Kenneth Donald Steiner of Oregon. Titular bishop Alfred Lanctôt, 13 Dec 1951 – 25 Mar 1953. Titular bishop Francis Valentine Allen 2 Jul 1954 – 7 Oct 1977 Titular bishop Kenneth Donald Steiner 28 Nov 1977

Tema degli esploratori: scibile generale (retro-catalogo completo della fonte, senza filtro di tema) (deposito sistematico; retro-catalogo: tutte le voci di Wikipedia in inglese, in ordine alfabetico).
Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Avensa (Africa)» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avensa_(Africa)
Wikidata Q28220924 (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28220924
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avensa_(Africa)?action=history).
Licenza: Creative Commons Attribuzione-Condividi allo stesso modo 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Il riuso richiede attribuzione e stessa licenza.
Estratto dell'introduzione non modificato nel contenuto; revisione 1144400142, consultata il 2026-11-10T12:38:55.136Z tramite l'API ufficiale di Wikipedia. Impronta SHA-256 dell'estratto: f2b47f284197abf2f5aa70dd26d174be7b55f8cf93ed9a1464495f0cb1f297e6