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Lesbi

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Charles G. Herbermann and others (editors)

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Lesbi, a titular see in Mauretania Sitifensis, suffragan of Sitifis, or Sétif, in Algeria. It is not, as is sometimes stated, the island of Lesbos, which never was a titular bishopric, and which, moreover, possesses two titular archbishoprics: Mytilene and Methymna. Of Lesbi we only know, from the “Itinerarium Antonini’, that it was situated twenty-five miles from Tupusuctu or Tiklat, and eighteen miles from Horrea Aninici, now Ain-Roua, south of Bougie. The town, therefore, was on the Sava, i. e. the Oued-Bou-Sellam, but there are no remains to be seen. Two of its bishops are recorded: Romanus, a Donatist, present © at the convention of Carthage, 411; Vadius, a Catholic, exiled by King Huneric, 484.

Toulettk, Géographie de l'Afrique chrétienne; Maurétanies (Montreuil, 1894), 212. S.

S. Vailhé.

Trans. None. Written in English by the contributors whose signatures close each article., The Catholic Encyclopedia, An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church, in fifteen volumes, 1907-1912. Public domain.

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