Thelepte (Berber languages: تلابت) was a city in the Roman province of Byzacena, now in western Tunisia.

An important network of roads branched out from it, linking it with Cilium and Theveste to the north, and Gafsa and Gabès to the south.

Frumentius was one of the Catholic bishops whom the Arian Vandal king Huneric summoned to Carthage in 484 and then exiled.

[2][4][5][6] The Thélepte diocese is one of the 14 of Byzacena still mentioned in the Notitiae Episcopatuum of Byzantine Emperor Leo VI the Wise (886-912).

[7] But today, no longer being a residential bishopric, Thelepte is listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.