The Diocese of Gisipa (Latin: Rite Gisipensis) is a home suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Carthage. [1] [2]
The Diocese of Gisipa (Latin: Rite Gisipensis) is a home suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Carthage. [1] [2]
The bishopric of Gisipa, was centered on a Roman town called Gisipam, the location of which is now lost to history, [3] although being in Africa Proconsularis it is certain that it was in what is modern north Tunisia.
The sources mention four bishops.
Today Gisipa survives as titular bishop, [4] the current bishop is Vitorino José Pereira Soares, Auxiliary Bishop of Porto. [5] [6]
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