Hilta

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See St Kilda, Scotland for the island also referred to as Hilta

Hilta was an ancient city and former bishopric in Roman Africa, in the north of modern Tunisia. It is now a Latin Catholic titular see.

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History

Hilta was important enough in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis to become a bishopric but later faded, presumably under the 7th century advent of Islam.

It has had three historically documented bishops :

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as a Latin Catholic titular bishopric of Hilta (Latin) / Ilta (Curiate Italian) / Hilten(sis) (Latin adjective).

It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank :

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