Cilibia, Africa

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Cilibia was an Ancient city and bishopric in Roman North Africa, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.

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Cilibia, probably at the site of Henchir-Kelbia in present Tunisia, was among the many cities in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis that were important enough to become a suffragan diocese of the Metropolitan of Carthage, in the papal sway.

Three of its bishops are historically documented, including a schismatic:

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin titular bishopric of Cilibia (Latin = Curiate Italian) / Cilibien(sis) (Latin adjective).

It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting episcopal (lowest) rank:

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