The Diocese of Mozotcori (Latin: Dioecesis Mozotcoritana [1] ) is a home suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.
A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese".
The seat of the Mozotcori bishop remains unknown but it was centered somewhere in what is today Tunisia. [2] The ancient episcopal see was within of the Roman province of Byzacena, [3] [4] and is known from late antiquity. The only known bishop of this diocese is Fortunato, who took part in the Council of Carthage (484) called by the Vandal king, Huneric, after which the bishop was exiled.
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Today Mozotcori survives as a titular bishopric [5] and the current bishop is Eusebius Alfred Nzigilwa, Auxiliary Bishop of Dar es Salaam. [6]
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