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The diocese of Dionysiana (in Latin: Dioecesis Dionysianensis) is a suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church. [1]

The Diocese of Dionysos, was centered on a Roman town of the Roman province of Byzacena ( in today's Tunisia) during late antiquity. [2]

History

There are three known bishops of this diocese during antiquity, which is one of the oldest in Roman North Africa. [3] [4] [5]

The diocese ceased to effectively function with the Arab–Byzantine wars in 698.

Since 1925 Dionysius now survives as a titular bishopric and the current bishop is Gary W. Janak, auxiliary bishop of San Antonio, Texas. [6]

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References

  1. "Dionysiana (Titular See) [Catholic-Hierarchy]".
  2. La diocesi nel sito di www.gcatholic.org.
  3. Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 465.
  4. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), pp. 151–152.
  5. J. Ferron, v. Dionysiana in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. IX, 1937, col. 505.
  6. "Resignations and Appointments".
  7. Catholic-Hierarchy menziona un vescovo del XVI secolo, Francisco Puerto, che secondo Konrad Eubel fu invece vescovo titolare di Dionisiade (Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi, vol. 3 Archived 21 March 2019 at the Wayback Machine , p. 186). Inoltre, sia Catholic-Hierarchy sia GCatholic inseriscono, prima di Malecki, Giuseppe Maria Aldanesi, che però fu in realtà anch'egli titolare di Dionisiade: AAS 01 (1909), p. 476.
  8. AAS 63 (1971), p. 720
  9. "Dionysiana (Titular See) [Catholic-Hierarchy]".
  10. "Dionysiana (Titular See) [Catholic-Hierarchy]".
  11. Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 221, Number 18,325.