Bennefa

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Africa Proconsularis (125 AD)

The Diocese of Bennefa (Latin: Rite Bennefensis) is a home suppressed and

Roman Catholic Church
. Bennefa, identifiable with Oglet-Khefifa in modern Tunisia,[1] is an ancient civitas of the Roman province of Byzacena.[2] and a seat of an ancient Christian episcopal see.[3] The diocese was mentioned by Augustine of Hippo.[4]

There are four known bishops of this diocese.

Today Bennefa survives as

References

  1. ^ Titular Episcopal See of Bennefa at GCatholic.org.
  2. ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 464
  3. ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I (Brescia, 1816), pp. 100–101.
  4. ^ Bennefa sul sito dell'Associazione storico-culturale di Sant'Agostino.
  5. ^ Patrologia Latina, XXXVI, coll. 376 e 381.
  6. ^ Patrologia Latina, XI, coll. 1304 e 1337.
  7. ^ Patrologia Latina, t. LVIII, coll. 271 e 315.
  8. ^ Auguste Audollent, v. Benefensis in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. VII, 1934, col. 1237
  9. ^ David Cheney, Diocesi di Bennefa, su Catholic-Hierarchy.org