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Belesasa was an ancient city and former bishopric in Roman North Africa, which only remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
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Belesasa was an ancient city and former bishopric in Roman North Africa, which only remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
Belesasa, was among the cities of sufficient importance in the Roman province of Numidia to become a suffragan diocese of the Metropolitan of Carthage, in the papal sway, but faded so completely, plausibly at the seventh century advent of Islam, that its exact location, now in Algeria wasn't even found.
Its only historically documented incumbent, Servus, was among the Catholic bishops convoked to a Council of Carthage in 484 by king Huneric of the Vandal Kingdom, and probably exiled likes his colleagues, unlike their schismatic Donatist counterparts (none reported for Belesasa) [1]
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin titular bishopric of Belesasa (Latin = Curiate Italian) / Belesasen(sis) (Latin adjective).
It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting episcopal (lowest) rank :
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