Gisipa

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The Diocese of Gisipa (Latin: Rite Gisipensis) is a home suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Carthage. [1] [2]

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Location

The bishopric of Gisipa, was centered on a Roman town called Gisipam, the location of which is now lost to history, [3] although being in Africa Proconsularis it is certain that it was in what is modern north Tunisia.

History

The sources mention four bishops.

Today Gisipa survives as titular bishop, [4] the current bishop is Vitorino José Pereira Soares, Auxiliary Bishop of Porto. [5] [6]

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References

  1. Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 466.
  2. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), pp. 173–174.
  3. Titular Episcopal See of Gisipa at GCatholic.org.
  4. David Cheney, Gisipa in catholic-hierarchy.org.
  5. Titular Episcopal See of Gisipa at GCatholic.org.
  6. Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 224, Number 18,559