Bisca (Bishopric)

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Bisica was a civitas of Roman North Africa, tentatively identified with ruins at Bijga in today's Tunisia.

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Bishopric

Bisca was the seat of an ancient episcopal see of the Roman province of Proconsular Africa, and a suffragan of the Bishop of Carthage. [1] [2] [3]

There are two documented bishops of this site.

Today Bisica survives as a titular bishopric and the current titular bishop is Andrew Harmon Cozzens, [6] [7] auxiliary bishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis.

Bishops

References

  1. Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 469.
  2. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 357.
  3. Auguste Audollent, Bisica in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. IX, 1937, coll. 4-5.
  4. Mansi, Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio, vol.IV, coll. 98 & 266.
  5. Mansi, Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio, vol. VIII, col. 648.
  6. Titular Episcopal See of Bisica.
  7. Bisca, catholicheirachy.org.