title: Gigthi
text: # Gigthi
  
  Gigthi was a town in the late Roman province of Tripolitania, which became a residential episcopal see. It corresponded to present-day Djorf-Bou-Ghara.
  
  Gigthi is today identified as extensive ruins near Rass el Bacha, Boughrara and Oulad Mehabeul.(Latitude: 33°31'59.98" Longitude:10°40'0.01") Gigthi was close to Wādī Bertema and Port de Boughrara. The town was 10 meters above sea level
  
  Gigthi identified with Bou Ghara, was connected by a causeway to Djerba island and the home of the pre Roman Lotus-eaters. The town has remains of a forum with temples a monumental arch, treasury and porticoed street leading to the harbor north of the city, which was probably a market. It also boasted two bath houses. The town was a prosperous source of grain from the rule of Nerva to Caracalla, and Antoninus Pius made the town a municipium.
  
  Inscriptions from the ruins show the survival of the Punic language well into Roman times, and strong sense of civic pride in the citizens.
  
  * Temple of Mercure
  * Temple of Asclepius
  * The Grand Temple
  * Port boughrara.
  * Githis in 1975.
  
  ## Bishopric
  
  Gighthi was also the seat of an ancient bishopric, which ceased to function effectively in the 7th century with the arrival of Islamic armies. Gighthi is now a titular see of the Catholic Church, being restored as a titular in 1933. The Latin adjective referring to it is Gigthensis.
  
  We know of Bishop Catulinus, a Catholic bishop who attended the Council of Carthage (411). The first titular bishop of the see was appointed on 23 March 1966. The current bishop is Mark O'Connell.
  
  