The diocese of Benepota (Latin: Dioecesis Benepotensis) is a suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.
History edit
Benepota, in today's Algeria, is an ancient bishopric of the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis.[1] [2][3] The location of the see is not currently known,[4] But what is known is that the Bishop of the town attended a meeting of bishops convened in Carthage in 484 by King Huneric the Vandal.[5]
Today Benepota survives as a titular bishopric and the current bishop is Leopold Hermes Garin Bruzzone, of Canelones.[6]
Known bishops edit
- Honorius (fl.484 AD)
- Francisco Rendeiro, (1965–1967)
- José Cerviño Cerviño (1968–1976)
- Tadeusz Rybak (1977–1992)
- Leopoldo Hermes Garin Bruzzone, (2002–current)
References edit
- ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p.464.
- ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), pp.99–100.
- ^ Auguste Audollent, "Benepotensis", in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. VII, 1934, col. 1276.
- ^ Benepota at www.gcatholic.org
- ^ Patrologia Latina, vol.LVIII, coll. 274 e 339.
- ^ Cheney, David M. "Benepota (Titular See) [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
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