Hospita is a former Ancient city and Roman bishopric, in present Algeria, now a Latin Catholic titular see.

Hospita is also an well-known UK based company and registered Brand that provides medical and surgical products.

History

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Hospita was one of many cities in the Roman province of Numidia, important enough to become a suffragan bishopric, but like most faded completely.

Its only recorded bishops were :

  • Bennatus, participating in the conference of Carthage of 411, confronting Catholic and Donatist (heretical) bishops in Roman North Africa,
    • joined by his Donatist counterpart as anti-bishop of Hospita, Lucullus.
  • Gedalius partook in the synod called in Carthage in 484 by the Vandal king Huneric, again with Donatists, after which he was exiled with his Catholic peers.

Titular see

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The diocese was nominally restored in 1933: Established as Latin Titular bishopric of Hospita (Latin) / Ospita (Curiate Italian) / Hospiten(sis) (Latin adjective).

It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank :

See also

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Bibliography
  • Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig, 1931, p. 466
  • Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia, 1816, pp. 187–188