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The Diocese of Bennefa (Latin: Rite Bennefensis) is a home suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church. Bennefa, identifiable with Oglet-Khefifa in modern Tunisia, [1] is an ancient civitas of the Roman province of Byzacena. [2] and a seat of an ancient Christian episcopal see. [3] The diocese was mentioned by Augustine of Hippo. [4]

There are four known bishops of this diocese.

Today Bennefa survives as titular bishopric [8] and the current bishop is Héctor Mario Pérez Villarreal, of Monterrey. [9]

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References

  1. Titular Episcopal See of Bennefa at GCatholic.org.
  2. Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 464
  3. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I (Brescia, 1816), pp. 100–101.
  4. Bennefa sul sito dell'Associazione storico-culturale di Sant'Agostino.
  5. Patrologia Latina, XXXVI, coll. 376 e 381.
  6. Patrologia Latina, XI, coll. 1304 e 1337.
  7. Patrologia Latina, t. LVIII, coll. 271 e 315.
  8. Auguste Audollent, v. Benefensis in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. VII, 1934, col. 1237
  9. David Cheney, Diocesi di Bennefa, su Catholic-Hierarchy.org