Sinnada in Mauretania

Not to be confused with Synnada in Phrygia, capital and Metropolitan Archbishopric of Phrygia Salutaris, in modern Turkey

Sinnada in Mauretania (also Synnada?) was an ancient city and former bishopric in Roman Africa, now a Latin Catholic titular see.

Its location is presumed near Kenada, in modern Algeria.

History

Sinnada was important enoughh in the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis to become a suffragan bishopric of its capital Caesarea Mauretaniae's Metropolitan Archbishop, but later faded.

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as a Latin Catholic titular bishopric.

It has had the following incumbents, of the lowest (episcopal) and once of the intermediary (archiepiscopal) rank :

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