Bonusta
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Bonusta was a town, not far from Carthage, in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis. No trace of it has been identified.[1]
Bishop Rufinianus
[edit | edit source]At the Conference of Carthage (411), which brought together for joint discussion the Catholic and Donatist bishops of Roman Africa, Bonusta was represented by the Catholic bishop Rufinianus. He declared that there never been Donatists at Bonusta. Primianus, a Donatist, responded: "He (Rufinianus) was one of us. We do have people there for whom we could ordain a bishop." Rufinianus retorted: "There never were."[1][2][3]
Bishop Cyprianus
[edit | edit source]In the Notitia Provinciarum et Civitatum Africae,[4] the name of Bishop Cyprianus of Bonusta appears in the 31st place in the list of Catholic bishops of Africa Proconsularis whom the Vandal king Huneric summoned to Carthage in 484 and then exiled.[1][2][3]
Titular see
[edit | edit source]No longer a residential bishopric, Bonusta is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.[5]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b c Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, pp. 105–106
- ^ a b Auguste Audollent, v. Bonustensis in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. IX, 1937, col. 1136
- ^ a b Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 464
- ^ Johann Peter Kirsch, "Notitia Provinciarum et Civitatum Africae" in Catholic Encyclopedia (New York 1911)
- ^ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).), p. 852