Benepota
The diocese of Benepota (in Latin: Dioecesis Benepotensis) is a suppressed and titular See of the Roman Catholic Church.
History
Benepota, in today's Algeria, is an ancient bishopric of the Roman province of Mauritania Cesariense.[1] [2][3] The location of the see is not currently known,[4] But what is known is that the Bishop of the town attended a meeting of bishops convened in Carthage by King Huneric the Vandal in 484.[5]
Today Benepota survives as a titular bishopric and the current bishop is Leopold Hermes Garin Bruzzone, of Canelones.[6]
Known Bishops
- Honorius (fl 484AD)
- Francisco Rendeiro, (1965 - 1967)
- José Cerviño Cerviño (1968 - 1976)
- Tadeusz Rybak (1977 - 1992)
- Leopoldo Hermes Garin Bruzzone, (2002 - current)
References
- ↑ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p.464.
- ↑ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), pp.99–100.
- ↑ Auguste Audollent, in Benepotensis in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. VII, 1934, col. 1276.
- ↑ Benepota at www.gcatholic.org
- ↑ Patrologia Latina, vol.LVIII, coll. 274 e 339.
- ↑ http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d2b44.html
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