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Cissita

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Area around Sidi Thabet (Cissita?)

Cissita was a town and bishopric of Roman North Africa, which only remains as a Catholic titular see.

History

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Cissita was located about 36°54'04"N 10°2' 9.96"W and has been tentatively identified with ruins near Sidi T(h)abet, 24 kilometers from Tunis.

The town was among the many civitates (cities) of the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis of sufficient importance to become a suffragan diocese of the metropolitan of Carthage,[1] in the papal sway, but like most faded completely, probably at the 7th-century advent of Islam.

Two of its bishops are historically documented (one disputed):

Titular see

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The diocese of Cissita was nominally restored in 1933 as the Latin titular bishopric of Cissita (Latin = Curiate Italian) / Cissitan(us) (Latin adjective)[3]

It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank:[4]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Cissita at catholic-hierarchy.org.
  2. ^ Morcelli however attributes to this see bishop Flavosus, whom Ferron attributes to the see of Mauretania: see Cissi.
  3. ^ Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 140, Number 12, 426
  4. ^ Titular Episcopal See of Cissita at GCatholic.org.
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Bibliography - ecclesiastical history
  • Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 465
  • Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 139
  • J. Ferron, lemma 'Cicsi' in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. XII, Paris 1953, coll. 827-828