Bisica was a

civitas In Ancient Rome, the Latin term (; plural ), according to Cicero in the time of the late Roman Republic, was the social body of the , or citizens, united by Roman law, law (). It is the law that binds them together, giving them responsibilitie ...

Roman North Africa Africa was a Roman province on the northern coast of the continent of Africa. It was established in 146 BC, following the Roman Republic's conquest of Carthage in the Third Punic War. It roughly comprised the territory of present-day Tunisi ...

, tentatively identified with

ruins Ruins () are the remains of a civilization's architecture. The term refers to formerly intact structures that have fallen into a state of partial or total disrepair over time due to a variety of factors, such as lack of maintenance, deliberate ...

at Bijga in today's

Tunisia Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered by Algeria to the west and southwest, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Tunisia also shares m ...

Bishopric

Bisca was the

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of an ancient

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of the

Roman province The Roman provinces (, pl. ) were the administrative regions of Ancient Rome outside Roman Italy that were controlled by the Romans under the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire. Each province was ruled by a Roman appointed as Roman g ...

Proconsular Africa Africa was a Roman province on the northern coast of the continent of Africa. It was established in 146 BC, following the Roman Republic's conquest of Carthage in the Third Punic War. It roughly comprised the territory of present-day Tunisi ...

, and a suffragan of the

Bishop of Carthage The Archdiocese of Carthage is a Latin Catholic titular see originally established as a diocese in Carthage, Roman Empire, in the 2nd century. Agrippinus was the first named bishop, appointed around 230 AD. The diocese, in its earlier form, ...

. There are two documented bishops of this site. *Among the bishops present at the Carthage conference of 411, participated Felix episcopus Visicensis, who declared that he had no Donatist competitors in his diocese. *Valentinianus who called himself ''gratia Dei episcopus sanctae ecclesiae Visicensis'', was one of the signers of the letter addressed by the bishops of the late antiquity

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Byzacena Byzacena (or Byzacium) (, ''Byzakion'') was a Late Roman province in the central part of Roman North Africa, which is now roughly Tunisia, split off from Africa Proconsularis. History At the end of the 3rd century AD, the Roman emperor Dioclet ...

in 646 to the patriarch Paul of Constantinople. Today Bisica survives as a

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ric and the current titular bishop is Andrew Harmon Cozzens,Bisca
catholicheirachy.org. auxiliary bishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis.

Bishops

*Felix (mentioned in 411) *Valentinian (mentioned in 646) *

Manuel Borras Ferré Manuel may refer to: People * Manuel (name), a given name and surname * Manuel (''Fawlty Towers''), a fictional character from the sitcom ''Fawlty Towers'' * Manuel I Komnenos, emperor of the Byzantine Empire * Manuel I of Portugal, king of Po ...

† (19 April 1934 - 12 August 1936) * Francis Xavier Zhao Zhen-sheng, (2 December 1937 - 11 April 1946) *

Francisco Prada Carrera Francisco is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the masculine given name ''Franciscus''. Meaning of the name Francisco In Spanish, people with the name Francisco are sometimes nicknamed "Paco". San Francisco de Asís was known as ''Pater Commu ...

, (3 September 1946 - 17 January 1957) * Walter William Curtis (June 27, 1957 - September 23, 1961) * Francis Edward Hyland (11 October 1961 - 31 January 1968) *

Jayme Henrique Chemello The Archdiocese of Pelotas () is a Roman Catholic archdiocese located in the city of Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul. Before being elevated to an archdiocese in its own right on April 13, 2011, it was part of the ecclesiastical province of Porto Ale ...

(11 February 1969 - 1 September 1977) * Gustavo Girón Higuita, O.C.D. (8 February 1990 - 29 October 1999) * Jan Franciszek Wątroba (20 April 2000 - 14 June 2013) * Andrew Harmon Cozzens, (11 October 2013 - current)

References

Catholic titular sees in Africa