Menefessi

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Menefessi is a former ancient city and bishopric in Tunisia. It is currently a Latin Catholic titular see.

Tunisia Country in Northern Africa

Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa, covering 163,610 square kilometres. Its northernmost point, Cape Angela, is the northernmost point on the African continent. It is bordered by Algeria to the west and southwest, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Tunisia's population was 11.435 million in 2017. Tunisia's name is derived from its capital city, Tunis, which is located on its northeast coast.

A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese".

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History

Menefessi was located near modern Henchir-Djemmiah. In Roman times, it belonged to the North African Roman province of Byzacena. The city was important enough to become a suffragan bishopric, but faded.

Roman province Major Roman administrative territorial entity outside of Italy

The Roman provinces were the lands and people outside of Rome itself that were controlled by the Republic and later the Empire. Each province was ruled by a Roman who was appointed as governor. Although different in many ways, they were similar to the states in Australia or the United States, the regions in the United kingdom or New Zealand, or the prefectures in Japan. Canada refers to some of its territory as provinces.

Byzacena was a Late Roman province in the central part of Roman North Africa, which is now roughly Tunisia, split off from Africa Proconsularis.

Bishopric

The diocese of Menefessi is a suppressed seat of the Roman Catholic Church. [1]

There are only two documented bishops of Menefessi. [2]

Today Menefessi survives as a titular bishop's seat; the current titular bishop is José Trinidad González Rodríguez, former auxiliary bishop of Guadalajara. The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as a Latin Catholic titular bishopric.

It has had the following incumbents, both of the lowest (episcopal) and intermediary (archiepiscopal) ranks :

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References

  1. ↑ GigaCatholic with titular incumbent biography links.
  2. ↑ J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912), p. 55.
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