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{{Short description|Ancient Roman & Berber town in Tunesia}}
[[File:Tunisia Antica.jpg|thumb|right|Map of Roman cities in Tunisia]]
'''Medeli''' was an ancient [[Roman Empire|Roman]]&ndash;[[Berbers|Berber]] [[civitas]] of the [[Roman Province]] of [[Roman North Africa|Africa Proconsularis]] in [[Tunisia]]. It has been tentatively identified with '''Henchir-Mencoub''' and lasted through the [[Roman Empire|Roman]], [[Vandal]] and [[Byzantine]] empires.
The ancient city was also the [[cathedra|seat]] of an ancient [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] [[bishopric]] the suffragan of the [[Archdiocese of Carthage]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Titular See of Medeli, Tunisia|url=http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t1120.htm|access-date=2021-06-08|website=GCatholic}}</ref> It is difficult to attribute with certainty the bishops to the diocese of Medeli, because of the different variants reported in the [[manuscript]]s.  Mesnage assigns Iader, who took part in the [[Council of Carthage (256)]] of St. [[Cyprian]] to discuss the question of the [[Lapsi (Christianity)|lapsi]]<ref>J. Mesnage, ''L'Afrique chrétienne'', Paris 1912, p.  115</ref> while Morcelli and Jaubert put this bishop to the diocese of Midila in Numidia.<ref>Stefano Antonio Morcelli, ''Africa Christiana'', Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), pp.  226, 229-230 and 272</ref>  The [[Donatist]] Bishop, Liberal, took part in the [[Conference of Carthage (411)]]. (The city appears to have had no Catholic bishop at this time).
Bishop Felicissimo, intervened at the [[Council of Carthage (525)]] though Morcelli attributes this to a hypothetical Bishop Diocese of Sedela not documented otherwise.<ref>Stefano Antonio Morcelli, ''Africa Christiana'', Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), pp.  226, 229-230 and 272</ref>  Today Medeli survives as titular see. Since 2015 the titular bishop of Medeli has been [[Zbigniew Zieliński]], auxiliary [[bishop of Gdańsk]].<ref>{{cite press release | publisher = Holy See Press Office | access-date = 26 September 2015 | date = 26 September 2015 | language = it | title = Rinunce e nomine, 26.09.2015 | url = https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2015/09/26/0722/01562.html }}</ref>
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[[Category:Roman towns and cities in Tunisia]]