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Obba
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Titular see in Byzacena, northern Africa of unknown history, although mentioned by Polybius (XIV, vi, under the name of Abba), and Titus Livius (XXX, vii). Situated on the highway from Carthage to Theveste (Tebessa), seven miles from Lares (Lorbeus) and sixteen from Althiburus (Henshir Medina), it is the modern Ebba. Three bishops are known, Paul, present at the Council of Carthage in 225, probably the Paul mentioned in the Martyrology for 19 January; Felicissimus, a Donatist, present at the conference at Carthage in 411; and Valerianus, at the Council of Constantinople, 553
Sources
TOULOTTE, Geog. de l'Afrique chretienne: (Rennes and Paris, 1892) 225.
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Obstat, Nihil. Lafort, Remy, Censor. Entry for 'Obba'. The Catholic Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/o/obba.html. Robert Appleton Company. New York. 1914.
Obstat, Nihil. Lafort, Remy, Censor. Entry for 'Obba'. The Catholic Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/o/obba.html. Robert Appleton Company. New York. 1914.
