Erythrum
Erythrum was a city and bishopric in Roman Africa, which remains a Catholic titular see.
The city, identified with modern Uaili-Et-Trun, was important enough in the Roman province of Cyrenaica and later the split-off province Libya Superior or Libya Pentapolitana to become a suffragan of its capital's Metropolitan of Cyrene.
Cyrenaica was conquered by Muslim Arabs during the tenure of the second caliph, Omer Bin Khattab, in 643/44, After the breakdown of the Umayyad caliphate it was essentially annexed to Egypt, although still under the same name, first under the Fatimid caliphs and later under the Ayyubid and Mamluk sultanates. Ultimately, it was annexed by the Turkish Ottoman Empire in 1517 when it was part of the Tripolitania Vilayet.
Christian bishopric
The Diocese of Erythron was a center of Early Christianity in the Pentapolis of North Africa. It was an early Christian bishopric. The seat of the Diocese was the Roman town of Erython, tentatively identified with the village of Uaili-Et-Trun in today's Libya.We know of four bishops of the diocese from antiquity.
- Orione
- Sabbazio
- Paolo
- Theophilo
It has been vacant for decades, having had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal rank, including an Eastern Catholic :
- Antonio Cavaleri as Auxiliary Bishop of Agrigento ; succeeded as Bishop of Agrigento
- Raimondo A. Vecchietti without prelature, later Bishop of Colle di Val d'Elsa
- Michele de Vincenti, without prelature
- Giovanni Battista Rosani, Piarists as President of Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy and on emeritate
- Giovanni Felix Jacovacci, no prelature
- Victor van den Branden de Reeth) as Auxiliary Bishop of Mechelen ; later on emeritate 'promoted' as Titular Archbishop of Tyrus (Tyre)
- '' Ghebre Jesus Jacob as Apostolic Exarch of Asmara of the Eritreans and on emeritate.''