Benepota

The diocese of Benepota (Latin: Dioecesis Benepotensis) is a suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.

History

Benepota, in today's Algeria, is an ancient bishopric of the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis.[1] [2][3] The location of the see is not currently known,[4] But what is known is that the Bishop of the town attended a meeting of bishops convened in Carthage in 484 by King Huneric the Vandal.[5]

Today Benepota survives as a titular bishopric and the current bishop is Leopold Hermes Garin Bruzzone, of Canelones.[6]

Known bishops

  • Honorius (fl.484 AD)
  • Francisco Rendeiro, (1965–1967)
  • José Cerviño Cerviño (1968–1976)
  • Tadeusz Rybak (1977–1992)
  • Leopoldo Hermes Garin Bruzzone, (2002–current)

References

  1. ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p.464.
  2. ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), pp.99–100.
  3. ^ Auguste Audollent, "Benepotensis", in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. VII, 1934, col. 1276.
  4. ^ Benepota at www.gcatholic.org
  5. ^ Patrologia Latina, vol.LVIII, coll. 274 e 339.
  6. ^ Cheney, David M. "Benepota (Titular See) [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2018-01-29.


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