The Diocese of Gisipa (Latin: Rite Gisipensis) is a home suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Carthage.[1][2]
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Location edit
The bishopric of Gisipa, was centered on a Roman town called Gisipam, the location of which is now lost to history,[3] although being in Africa Proconsularis it is certain that it was in what is modern north Tunisia.
History edit
The sources mention four bishops.
- The Catholic bishop, Gennaro attended the Council of Carthage (411)
- Carissimo took part in the Synod of Carthage in 484 called by the Vandal king Huneric, after which Carissimo was exiled
- Redento attended the Council of Carthage (525)
- Melloso signed the anti-monothelitism canon of 646.
Today Gisipa survives as titular bishop,[4] the current bishop is Vitorino José Pereira Soares, Auxiliary Bishop of Porto.[5][6]
References edit
- ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 466.
- ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), pp. 173–174.
- ^ Titular Episcopal See of Gisipa at GCatholic.org.
- ^ David Cheney, Gisipa in catholic-hierarchy.org.
- ^ Titular Episcopal See of Gisipa at GCatholic.org.
- ^ Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 224, Number 18,559