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