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The Diocese of Pudentiana is a suppressed and
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of the
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. It was centered on the
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of
Pudentiana Pudentiana is a virgin and martyr of the 2nd century who refused to worship the Roman Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Antoninus Pius as deities. She is sometimes locally known as "Potentiana" and is often coupled with her sister, Praxedes the mar ...
that flourished in the
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of
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,
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, through the
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and
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of
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.


History

At the Conference of Carthage of 411, the
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and
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s of
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 ...
debated. The records of the Council show that the town was represented by the Donatist Cresconius, who reported that the diocese had no Catholic bishop. The proceedings of the conference tell, however, that Auronio of Macomades, who was a fervent Catholic, answered Cresconius saying that Pudenziana had had a Catholic bishop named Memmiano and that he had succeeded another bishop with the same name, but that both had died. Auronio of Macomades also accused Cresconi of having destroyed four Catholic
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s. Peregrino participated in the synod assembled in Carthage in 484 by the
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King
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, after which Peregrino was exiled. In 591,
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ordered Bishop Colombo of Nicives to convene a
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to judge the work of Massimiano of Pudenziana, accused by his deacons of accepting bribes from donatists. The
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lasted until the
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. Today Pudenziana survives as a
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ric. Two holders of the titular see became
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: Mario Casariego y Acevedo and
Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, S.D.B. (born 29 December 1942) is a Honduran prelate of the Catholic Church who was Archbishop of Tegucigalpa from 1993 to 2023. He was president of Caritas Internationalis and served as president of the ...
. The most recent bishop was György Snell, auxiliary bishop of Esztergom-Budapest.


Bishops

*Robert, Cardinal Titular of St.
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, (d.1294) * Mario Casariego y Acevedo (1958–1963) *Victor Garaygordóbil Berrizbeitia (1963–1978) *
Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, S.D.B. (born 29 December 1942) is a Honduran prelate of the Catholic Church who was Archbishop of Tegucigalpa from 1993 to 2023. He was president of Caritas Internationalis and served as president of the ...
, (1978–1993), Archbishop of
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* Peter William Ingham (1993–2001),
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*
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(2001– 2003), *
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(2004–2006), *
Shelton Fabre Shelton Joseph Fabre is an American Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of Louisville since 2022. He previously served as Bishop of Houma-Thibodaux from 2013 to 2022 and as auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of New Orleans from 200 ...
(2006–2013) * György Snell (20 Oct 2014 – 26 February 2021) * Carlos Godoy Labraña (22 June 2021).


References

{{reflist Catholic titular sees in Africa