Fissiana

The Diocese of Fissiana (in Latin Rite Fissianensis) is a home suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.

Location
Africa Proconsularis (125 AD)

The exact location for the seat of the diocese is unknown,[1] though Fissiana, is tentatively located somewhere near Foussana in modern Tunisia. In antiquity it was within the Roman province of Byzacena,[2][3] corresponding to the modern Sahel region of Tunisia.

History

Of this dioceses only two Donatist bishops are known.

  • Donato who participated in the Council of Cabarsussi, held in 393 by Maximianus, a dissident sect of the Donatists, and he signed the acts of that Council.
  • At the Council of Carthage (411), Bishop Turrasio represented the town, no Catholic competitor attended the conference.

That the town was a stronghold of Donatism is not surprising, as it is located close to the heartland of that movement with many of the first Donatist congregations forming in the semi-arid region to the west and south west of Foussana.

Today Fissiana survives as titular bishopric[1] and the current bishop is Darius Trijonis, Auxiliary bishop of Vilnius.[4]

Known bishops

References
  1. Titular Episcopal See of Fissiana. at GCatholic.org.
  2. Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 465.
  3. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia 1816), p. 159
  4. Fissiana at catholic-hierarchy.org.
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