Rucuma
  Shown within Tunisia | |
| Location | Tunisia |
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| Region | Bizerte Governorate |
| Coordinates | 37°02′53″N 9°31′18″E / 37.048181°N 9.521675°E |
Titular see of Rucuma Rucuma (adjectival form: Rucumensis) | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Country | Benedict XVI |
| Titular Bishop | Thomas Maria Renz |
Rucuma is a former city and bishopric in
Roman North Africa, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see
.
History
It was among the cities of sufficient importance in the late
suffragan bishopric of its capital Carthage's Metropolitan Archbishopric, yet faded so completely, plausibly at the 7th century advent of Islam, that its precisely location, now in northern Tunisia
, wasn't identified precisely.
Historically recorded Diocesan bishops were :[1]
- Lucianus, attended the Council of Carthage in 256, called by Saint Cyprian on lapsi ('lapsed' Christians, who accepted forced pagan sacrifices to avoid martyrdom)
- Maximus, who intervened at another Council of Carthage in 646, against the heresy monothelitism.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as
titular bishopric of Rucuma (Latin = Curiate Italian) / Rucumen(sis) (Latin adjective).[2]
It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank:
- Jean-Joseph-Léonce Villepelet (2 July 1966 – resigned 10 Dec 1970) as emeritate, previously Bishop of Nantes (France) (1936.08.20 – 1966.07.02); died 1982
- (Zimbabwe) (1982.06.25 – death 2003.04.08), President of Inter-Regional Meeting of Bishops of Southern Africa (1992–1995)
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee, (Florida, USA) (1997.01.20 [1997.03.13] – retired 2011.03.11)
- Thomas Maria Renz (29 April 1997 – ...) as Auxiliary Bishop of Rottenburg–Stuttgart (Germany) (1997.04.29 – ...).
See also
- List of Catholic dioceses in Tunisia
References
- ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 263
- ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 960
Sources and external links
- GCatholic - (former &) titular see
- Rucuma in Catholic Hierarchy.
- Bibliography
- Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 468
- Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 263