Sila was ancient city and bishopric in Roman North Africa, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.

History

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Sila, identified with modern Bordj-El-Ksar in present Algeria, was among the cities important enough in the Roman province of Numidia (in the papal sway) to become one of its many suffragan dioceses, yet destined to fade, possibly with the 7th century advent of Islam.

Its only historically documented bishop, Donatus, was exiled in 484 by king Huneric of the Vandal Kingdom, like most attending Catholic bishops, unlike their Donatist (heretical) counterparts.

Titular see

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The diocese was nominally restored in 1925 as Latin titular bishopric of Sila (Latin = Curiate Italian) / 錫拉 (正體中文) / Silen(sis) (Latin adjective).

It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank or of higher archiepiscopal rank:

See also

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Sources

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  • Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 468
  • Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 280
  • GCatholic - data for all sections
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