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. It was mentioned in the

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. Tigisis is identified with ruins situated between present-day

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Diocese

The city was also the seat of an

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. There are three known bishops of this diocese. The rival

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bishops Solemnio and Pascasio both attended the 411 Council of Carthage, which gathered together the bishops of

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. Passinato intervened at the 484 Council of Carthage called by the

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, after which he was exiled. Today, Tigisis in Mauritania survives as

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. The current bishop is Tadeusz Bronakowski, auxiliary bishop of Łomża.Titular Episcopal See of Tigisi in Mauretania

Bishops

Ancient diocese

Three bishops of the town are known to us from antiquity: * Solemnius (),

bishop * Paschasius (), a rival

bishop * Passitanus ()

Titular diocese

* Rodrigo Vicente Cisneros Durán (1 December 1967– 4 July 1969) * Herbé Seijas (2 July 1975– 15 October 1975 ) *

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(6 March 1976– 26 June 1988) * Martino Canessa (20 June 1989– 2 February 1996) * Thomas Koorilos Chakkalapadickal (9 May 1997– 15 January 2003) * Tadeusz Bronakowski (11 February 2006– present)

References

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Berber populated places