Titular Bishopric of Vita
Vita was a
History
The ancient city of Vita's location is identified with the ruins of Beni-Derraj in modern
suffragan sees of its capital Hadrumetum (modern (Sousse))'s Metropolitan Archbishorpic. Founded during Roman times, it survived the Vandal and Byzantine rule, but ceased to function following the Umayyad
conquest of 670AD.
Among the
Another well-known bishop of Vita was Pampiniano, a victim of the
Genseric and remembered by the Roman Martyrology on November 28.[8]
Titular see
The
Roman Catholic diocese of Africa Proconsulare
. There were two known bishops:
- Panpinianus (Catholic bishop fl.418–430)
- Victor (Catholic bishop fl 484.) exiled by the Vandal king Huneric
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as a Latin titular bishopric.
It has had the following incumbents, of the (lowest) episcopal rank : [9][10][11]
- Timothy J. Corbett (25 June 1938 – death 20 July 1939), retired first Bishop of Crookston (Minnesota, USA) (1910.04.09 – 1938.06.25)
- Arthur Douville (30 November 1939 – 27 November 1942)
- Joseph Aloysius Burke (April 17, 1943 – February 7, 1952)
- Francisco Orozco Lomelín (19 March 1952 – 17 October 1990)
- Blessed Álvaro del Portillo (7 December 1990 – 23 March 1994)
- Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Santo Domingo(Dominican Republic)
- )
See also
References
- ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 470.
- ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana, Volume I, Brescia, 1816, pp. 357-358.
- ^ J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, Paris 1912, p. 51.
- ^ Vita. catholic-hierarchy.org.
- ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), "Sedi titolari", pp. 819-1013
- ^ Victor Vitensis. History of the Vandal Persecution. Translated by John Moorhead, (Translated Texts for Historians; 10). Liverpool, 1992.
- ^ A. H. Merrills, "totum subuertere uoluerunt: ‘social martyrdom’ in the Historia persecutionis of Victor of Vita", in Christopher Kelly, Richard Flower, Michael Stuart Williams (eds), Unclassical Traditions. Vol. II: Perspectives from East and West in Late Antiquity (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011) (Cambridge Classical Journal; Supplemental Volume 35), 102-115.
- ^ By Henri Irénée Marrou, André Mandouze, Anne-Marie La Bonnardière, Prosopographie de l'Afrique chrétienne (303–533) (Éditions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1982) p 1298
- ^ Vita at GCatholic.org.
- ^ "Google Translate". translate.googleusercontent.com. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
- ^ Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 146, Number 12.770.
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