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Aeliae
Roman-era city in Byzacena / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aeliae or Æliæ was a Roman-era city in the province of Byzacena.[1]
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The town must have been of some importance as it was made a bishopric early after the Council of Nicaea and it was a Catholic diocese throughout antiquity.
Its exact location is tentatively given as ruins near Henchir-Mraba[2][3] southeast of Ouled Chamekh, between lake Sebkhet Cherita and Sebkhet de Sidi El Hani in the central part of what is today Mahdia Governorate, Tunisia.[4]
Aeliae was also the seat of an ancient Christian bishopric. There are three bishops documented as residing in Aeliae during antiquity.[5][6]
- The Catholic Fascinullo intervened at the Conference of Carthage of 411, between Catholic and Donatist bishops of Roman North Africa
- The Bishop Donaziano participated in the synod assembled in Carthage in 484 by the arian King Huneric the Vandal, after which Donaziano was exiled.
- Bishop Constantine took part in the anti-monotheistic Council of Carthage (641).
Since 1933 Aeliae has been a titular bishopric. Since 2019 the title has been held by Ricardo Augusto Rodríguez Álvarez, Auxiliary Bishop of Lima, Peru.[7]