Usinaza

Mauretania Caesariensis.

The Diocese of Usinaza (in Latin: Dioecesis Usinazensis) is a suppressed and titular See of the Roman Catholic Church, in the province of Mauritania Cesariense.[1][2][3][4]

The seat of the Usinaza bishopric has been tentatively identified with Seneg in today's Algeria,[5] though this is not certain.

The only known ancient bishop of this diocese is Donaziano, who took part in the synod assembled in Carthage by the Arian King, Huneric of the Vandal Kingdom in 484, after which the bishop was exiled.

Today Usinaza survives as a titular bishopric and the current bishop is Marie Pierre François Auguste Gaschy, apostolic vicar of the Saint-Pierre and Miquelon Islands.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), "Sedi titolari", pp. 819-1013
  2. ↑ Apostolische Nachfolge – Titularsitze
  3. ↑ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 469.
  4. ↑ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 361.
  5. ↑ entry at gcatholic.org].
  6. ↑ Entry at catholic-hierarchy.org]

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