Siccenna

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Siccenna was a Roman Era town and episcopal see in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis in what is today northern Tunisia, which is now a Latin Catholic titular bishopric.

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Africa Proconsularis (125 AD)

History

Siccenna was also the seat of an ancient episcopal see, [1] one of many suffragans of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Carthage. [2]

The only known Roman era bishop of this diocese was the African Donatist Ciprian, who participated in the Council of Carthage (411), the city at that time had no Catholic bishops.

Titular see

In 1933, Siccenna was nominally restored as Latin titular bishopric [3] of diocesan rank.

Incumbents were, nearly consecutively, of the fitting Episcopal (lowest)rank, with an archiepiscopal exception:

See also

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References

  1. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p.276.
  2. Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig 1931), p.468.
  3. Apostolische Nachfolge – Titularsitze Archived 2019-01-19 at the Wayback Machine .
  4. Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 221, Number 18,315
  5. Siccenna at www.gcatholic.org .