During the Roman Empire Cincara,Cincara, Roman North Africa was a civitas of Africa Proconsularis.
The town was on the Medjerda riverordj Toumi, at getamap.net. and therefore in the bread basket of Roman North Africa. The Ruins of Cincara can still be seen at Bordj Toumi in Tunisia.
Bishopric Cincara was a seat of an ancient Christian diocese, J. Ferron, v. Cincari, in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. XII, Parigi 1953, coll. 833-834. of which we know two bishops, one donatist and one catholic indicating the controversy had reached the town. Both bishops attended the Council of Carthage in 411.Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 465.Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 140.
Today Cincara survives (since 1933)as a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church. Cincari, at gcatholic.org.Cincara, catholicheirachy.org.
Restituto (fl 411) Campano (fl 411)(donatista) Bishop José Andrés Corral Arredondo (1989 – 1992) Bishop Roger Francis Crispian Hollis (1987 – 1988) bishop Ricardo Blanco Granda (1969 – 1986) Bishop Manuel Castro Ruiz (1965 – 1969)
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