Beneventum (Africa)

Beneventum was an ancient city and bishopric in Tunisia. It is now a Latin Catholic titular see.

Area near Beni Ata

Beneventum was a Roman and Byzantine era city in the province of Africa Proconsularis.[1] Its presumed present location is at the ruins of Beniata, located near Bizerte in modern Tunisia.

History

Beneventum was import enough in the Roman province of Africa proconsularis to become a suffragan of its capital Carthage's Metropolitan Archbishop, yet was to fade.

Titular see

Very little is known of the ancient bishopric and though suffragan of the Archdiocese of Carthage no bishops are known by name. The diocese ceased to function with the arrival of the Islamic armies in the 7th century but was nominally restored in 1933 (Curiate Italian title Benevento. The city should not be confused with the Italian city of the same name.

Tadeusz Gocłowski, 2011

It has following incumbents:

gollark: It would no longer be possible for humans to cut many of them down.
gollark: Also deforestation. There are so many upsides.
gollark: Which would also fix flooding.
gollark: Also, rising sea levels. This could be eliminated as an issue by breaking all the various feedback loops enough that the oceans boil.
gollark: For example: apparently climate change is causing more/worse hurricanes or something. But if we heat the Earth by something like ~~10~~ 30 degrees, there will be hypercanes instead.

See also

References
  1. Joseph Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticae; Or the Antiquities of the Christian Church, Volume 3 p.220.
  2. "Ordinazione Episcopale conferita dal Santo Padre Francesco, 04.10.2019" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 4 October 2019. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  3. "Ordinary Public Consistory: Assignment of Titles". Holy See Press Office. 5 October 2019. Archived from the original on 16 October 2019. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
  4. "Rinunce e Nomine, 01.05.2020" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 1 May 2020. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
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