Africa Proconsularis (125 AD) Lapda , was a civitas (town) of the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis .[1] [2] Its exact location is now lost to history, though probably somewhere in central modern Tunisia . Also known as Labdia.[3] [4]
Lapda was also the seat of an ancient Christian episcopal see ,[5] [6] suffragan to the Archdiocese of Carthage .[7] [8]
There are three bishops of antiquity mentioned by the historical sources.
Today [9] Lapda survives as a titular bishopric and the current bishop is José Mauricio Vélez García, of Medellín .
References ^ Lapda at catholic-hierarchy.org. ^ Joseph Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticæ , Volume 2 (William Straker, 1834) p441. ^ Joseph Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticæ , Volume 2 (William Straker, 1834) p446. ^ Joseph Bingham, The works of the learned Joseph Bingham, M.A. (Robert Knaplock, 1726 ) p412. ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams , Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae , (Leipzig, 1931), p. 466.^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana , Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), pp. 193–194. ^ Lapda at catholic-hierarchy.org. ^ Joseph Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticæ , Volume 2 (William Straker, 1834) p441. ^ David Cheney, Diocese of Lapda, at Catholic-Hierarchy.org.