Henchir-El-Hatba is a village and an archaeological site in Tunisia.Carte des routes et des cités de l'est de l'Africa à la fin de l'Antiquité, 2010, p. 144. It was a Roman Catholic diocese.
Location Henchir-El-Hatba also known as Ksar-el-Outibais located at 35.737815N, 8.62168E in Tunisia, 30km east of the border with AlgeriaDennis P. Kehoe, The Economics of Agriculture on Roman Imperial Estates in North Africa (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1988) p199.
History Henchir-El-Hatba was settled in Roman times Inscriptions de la région de Milev Mélanges d'archéologie et d'histoire / Année 1967 / Volume 79 / Numéro 1 / pp. 165-205 probably during the Roman Republic.E. Babelon, R. Cagnat and S. Reinach, Atlas archéologique de la Tunisie (1:50,000), Paris, p1892-1913.
A broken inscription gives the Roman name as Fundus Ver...R. B. Hitchner, R. Warner, R. Talbert, T. Elliott, and S. Gillies, 'Fundus Ver(...): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2012 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/324707> [accessed: 04 October 2016]. Although the full name is not known, the town is the seat of the ancient titular see known as Verrona, it is possible that the full Roman name was Fundus Verrona.
Inscriptions from Henchir-El-Hatba show it had colonia status and may have been the site of an imperial estate.Dennis P. Kehoe, The Economics of Agriculture on Roman Imperial Estates in North Africa (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1988) p199.
Bishopric
An ancient Roman Catholic titular bishopric known as the Titular Episcopal See of Verrona in the province of Numidia, was located at Henchir-El-Hatba. Titular Episcopal See of Verrona at GCatholic.org.Henri Marrou Irenaeus, André Mandouze, Anne-Marie Bonnardière, Prosopography of Christian Africa (303-533) (Éditions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1982) p1313.
Known Bishops Titular Bishop James Francis McCarthy (1999.05.11 – ...) Titular Bishop Eric Gerard Perkins (1972.11.16 – 1998.05.22) Titular Bishop Eugenio Beitia Aldazabal (1965.01.23 – 1970.12.11)
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