page_title: Tabarka
section_title: Ecclesiastical history
hierarchical_section_title: Tabarka / Ecclesiastical history
caption_attribution_description: English: Photographs of Tabarka Français&#160;: Photos de Tabarka العربية: صور من طبرقة This file was uploaded with Commonist.
context_page_description: Tabarka is a coastal town located in north-western Tunisia, close to the border with Algeria. Tabarka's history is a colorful mosaic of Berber, Punic, Hellenistic, Roman, Islamic, Genoese and Turkish culture. The town is dominated by an offshore rock on which is remains a Genoese castle. Nationalist leader Habib Bourguiba, later president of post-independence Tunisia, was exiled here by the French colonial authorities in 1952. Tourist attractions include its coral fishing, the Coralis Festival of underwater photography, and its annual jazz festival.
context_section_description: Thabraca became a Christian bishopric that is no longer a residential see but is included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees.
   was also the seat of an ancient Bishopric and in antiquity it had a monastery for men and one for women, and several church Buildings and Christian cemeteries have been uncovered. The city contains several Christian cemeteries, many of the tombs covered with curious mosaics. An inscription (C.I.L., VIII, 173-82) mentions the cult of the martyr Anastasia and her companions.
  Bishops
  The bishops of Thabraca, who met with the other bishops of Proconsular Africa, included:
  Victoricus, at the Council of Carthage (256)
  Rusticianus, at the conference of Carthage in 411, where his competitor was the Donatist Charentius; he also signed in 416 the letter from the council of Proconsular Africa to Pope Innocent I;
  Clarissimus, who in 646 signed the letter from the same Council to Patriarch Paul II of Constantinople against the Monothelites.
  The Bishopric was founded during the Roman Empire and survived through the arian Vandal and Orthodox Byzantine empires, only ceasing to function with the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb. The diocese was re-founded in name at least in the 20th century as a titular see of the Roman Catholic church.
  Titular bishops
  Pierre Brigot, (22 Jan 1755 Appointed – 8 Nov 1791)
  St. Louis Gabriel Taurin Dufresse, (24 Jul 1798 Appointed – 14 Sep 1815)
  Edward Kernan (6 Feb 1818 Appointed – 19 Nov 1824)
  Rémi Gaulin † (10 May 1833 Appointed – 14 Jan 1840 Succeeded, Bishop of Kingston, Ontario)
  Bernardino di Milia, (27 Mar 1884 Appointed – 4 Jun 1891)
  Antonin Guillermain, (12 Jan 1895 Appointed – 14 Jul 1896)
  Henri Streicher, (1 Feb 1897 Appointed – 2 Jun 1933)
  Auguste-Joseph-Marie Cogneau (23 Jun 1933 Appointed – 12 Apr 1952)
  Georges Kettel, (24 Mar 1953 Appointed – 10 Nov 1959)
  Charles Quentin Bertram Olwell, (19 Jan 1961 Appointed – 30 Jan 1972)
  Antônio Agostinho Marochi (27 Sep 1973 Appointed – 2 Feb 1976)
  Sebastian Acol Dalis (18 Nov 1987 Appointed – 27 Oct 2004 Died)
  Pedro Joaquin Hernández Cantarero, (12 Feb 2005 Appointed – )
caption: View Of Tabarka's Fort
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