Midica

Last updated April 24, 2019

The Diocese of Midica (in Latin: Dioecesis Midicensis) is a suppressed venue and head office of the Catholic Church. Midica, near Sfax in today's Tunisia, is an ancient episcopal seat of the province of Byzacena. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Latin is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. The Latin alphabet is derived from the Etruscan and Greek alphabets and ultimately from the Phoenician alphabet.

Sfax is a city in Tunisia, located 270 km (170 mi) southeast of Tunis. The city, founded in AD 849 on the ruins of Roman Taparura, is the capital of the Sfax Governorate, and a Mediterranean port. Sfax has a population of 330,440. The main economic activities of Sfax are industries, agriculture, fishing and trade (import-export). The city is often described as Tunisia's "second city", being the second-most populous city after the capital Tunis.

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.

The only known bishop of this African diocese is the Donatist bishop Mark, who took part in the 411 Carthaginian conference, between the Catholic and Donatist bishops. The seat on that occasion had no Catholic bishops.

A bishop is an ordained, consecrated, or appointed member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight.

Today Midica survives as a titular bishopric and the current bishop is Leonard William Kenney, auxiliary bishop of Birmingham.

A titular bishop in various churches is a bishop who is not in charge of a diocese. By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches is that he be ordained for a specific place. There are more bishops than there are functioning dioceses. Therefore, a priest appointed not to head a diocese as its diocesan bishop but to be an auxiliary bishop, a papal diplomat, or an official of the Roman Curia is appointed to a titular see.

The Bishop of Birmingham heads the Church of England diocese of Birmingham, in the Province of Canterbury, in England.

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References

↑ Entry at www.catholic-hierarchy.org.
↑ Entry at www.gcatholic.org.
↑ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 467.
↑ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 226.

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[1] Entry at www.catholic-hierarchy.org.

[2] Entry at www.gcatholic.org.

[3] Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 467.

[4] Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 226.