Boreum, Cyrenaica Boreum, Cyrenaica 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. 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. We know of only one ancient bishop, the Arian bishop Senziano, mentioned in 325. In 1933 the diocese was nominally restored as a Latin
Decline of ancient Egyptian religion in the 1970s. Decline of ancient Egyptian religion The decline of indigenous religious practices in ancient Egypt is largely attributed to the spread of Christianity in Egypt, and its strict monotheistic nature not allowing the syncretism seen between ancient Egyptian religion and other polytheistic religions, such as that of the Romans. Although religious practices within Egypt stayed relatively constant despite contact with the greater Mediterranean world, such as with the Persians, Greeks, and Romans, Christianity directly competed with the native religion. Even before the Edict of Milan in AD 313, which legalised Christianity in the Roman Empire, Egypt became an