Boreum, Cyrenaica

See Boreum for namesakes

Boreum was a city and diocese in Roman Libya. It is now a Roman Catholic titular see.

Its modern location is Tabibbi, in southern modern Libya.

## History

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Boreum was important enough in the Roman province of Libya Superior (Libya Pentapolitana; part of Cyrenaica) to become one of the suffragan sees in this province, which depended directly on the Patriarchate of Alexandria (in Egypt) without a proper Metropolitan, but faded like most bishoprics in Roman Africa.[1][2][3] Only one ancient bishop is known, the Arian bishop Senziano, mentioned in 325.

## Titular see

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In 1933 the diocese was nominally restored as a Latin titular bishopric of Boreum (Latin) / Borien(sis) (Latin adjective) / Boreo (Curiate Italian).[4][5]

It is vacant, having had only these incumbents, all of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank:[6]

* Louis-Joseph-Ephrem Groshenry, Society of African Missions [S.M.A.) (1937.06.17 – death 1962.05.18) as first Apostolic Vicar of Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso, then French Upper Volta) (1937.06.17 – 1941.05.15) and as emeritate
* Sinforiano Lucas Rojo, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (O.M.I.) (1962.08.24 – death 1990.05.04) as Apostolic Vicar of Pilcomayo (Paraguay) (1962.08.24 – 1981.01.24) and as emeritate.

## See also

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* List of Catholic dioceses in Libya

## References

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1. ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 462.
2. ^ Michel Le Quien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, (Paris, 1740), volII, coll. 627-630.
3. ^ A. van Lantschoot, v. Borium in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol.IX, (1937), col. 1255
4. ^ La diocesi nel sito di www.gcatholic.org.
5. ^ David Cheney, Diocesi di Boreo, su Catholic-Hierarchy.org
6. ^ http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t0333.htm GCatholic

## Sources and external links

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* GCatholic - data for all sections