Utimma was an ancient city in the Roman province of Africa ProconsularisBulletin of the Société de l'histoire de France (J. Renouard, 1844), p253. (now northern Tunisia ) during the Byzantine and Roman Empires.Utimma in catholic-hierarchy.orgApostolische Nachfolge – Titularsitze. the exact location of Utimma is lost to history but it is believed to be between Sidi Medien and Henchir-Reoucha in Tunisia.
The town of Utimma was also the home of a suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church. Utimma in www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Utimma www.gcatholic.org. There are two known bishops of this diocese both attendee at the Council of Carthage (411), the Catholic Ottavio and Donatist Bonifacio.Jean Hardouin, Claude Rigaud (París), Acta conciliorum et epistolae decretales ac constitutiones summorum pontificum (Ex Typographia Regia, 1715) p16.Gosse, Alberts, The Great Geographical and Critical Dictionary (Hondt, 1739) Today Utimma survives as a titular bishopric,Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p.470.Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p.364. the current bishop is Theodorus van Ruijven.Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 199, Number 16,267.
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