Henchir-Belli, also known as Beled Belli, is a location and archaeological site in Tunisia.
History Known as Belali it was a Roman-era civitas in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis.Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 32 E4. Column ruins of an ancient temple/church are still found in situ.Michael Greenhalgh, The Military and Colonial Destruction of the Roman Landscape of North Africa. (BRILL, 8 May 2014 ) p90.
The ancient city was also the seat of an ancient bishopric, Titular Episcopal See of Belali.Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 464. in the ecclesiastical province of Carthage. Belali at catholic-hierarchy.org. The only known bishop from antiquity is Adeodato (fl.411). The bishopric survives today as a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church,Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p98-99.David M. Cheney Belali at catholic-hierarchy.org. Carlos Alberto de Pinho Moreira Azevedo being bishop since 2004.Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 179, Number 14,844.
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