{{Short description, Diocesal city in Algeria
Tisedi was an ancient city and
episcopal see
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, which remains a
Latin Church
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titular see
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within the
Catholic Church
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.
History
Tisedi, located near modern Aziz-Ben-Tellis in present
Algeria
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, was one of many towns in the
Roman province
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of
Numidia
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which was important enough to become a
suffragan bishopric
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In the Catholic Church, a suffragan bishop leads a diocese within an ecclesiastical province other than the principal diocese, the metropolitan archdiocese; the diocese led by ...
but faded completely.
Three of its residential bishops are recorded (although author Morcelli assigns them to Tiddi):
* Donatus I suffered gravely, according to Saint
Optatus
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Biography and context
Augustine of Hippo suggests that Optatus was a convert: "Do we not see with ho ...
Donatism
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and was deprived of his see in 362 by their bishop Felix of Idicra
* The
Council of Carthage (484)
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Synod of 251
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, called by
Huneric
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of the
Vandal Kingdom
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, was attended for Tisedi by both a
Catholic
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bishop Lampadius, who was banished afterwards, and his Donatist counterpart, Donatus.
Titular see
The
diocese
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History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, prov ...
was nominally restored in 1933 as the
Latin Church
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titular see
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of Tisedi (Latin)/Tisedi (Curiate Italian)/Tiseditanus (Latin adjective).
It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank:
* Joseph Kilasara, Holy Ghost Fathers (C.S.Sp.) (1966.11.03 – death 1978.11.21), as emeritate, formerly Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Moshi (
Tanzania
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Auxiliary Bishop
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...
of Archdiocese of Bogotá (Colombia) (1980.10.27 – 1988.05.21); later Bishop of Girardot (Colombia) (1988.05.21 – retired 2001.06.15), died 2010
* Luis Gutiérrez Martín, Claretians (C.M.F.) (1988.09.15 – 1995.05.12) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Madrid (Spain) (1988.09.15 – 1995.05.12), Bishop of
Segovia
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(Spain) (1995.05.12 – retired 2007.11.03), died 2016
* Neil E. Willard (1995.06.27 – death 1998.03.25) as Auxiliary Bishop of
Archdiocese of Montreal
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(Quebec, Canada) (1995.06.27 – 1998.03.25)
* Gerhard Feige (1999.07.19 – 2005.02.23) as Auxiliary Bishop of
Magdeburg
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(Germany) (1999.07.19 – 2005.02.23), next succeeded as Bishop of Magdeburg (2005.02.23 – ...)
* Marian Rojek (2005.12.21 – 2012.06.30) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Przemyśl (Poland) (2005.12.21 – 2012.06.30); later Bishop of Zamość-Lubaczów (Poland) (2012.06.30 – ...)
* Gustavo Alejandro Montini (2014.02.14 – 2016.12.16) as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of San Roque de Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña (Argentina) (2014.02.14 – 2016.12.16); later Bishop of Santo Tomé (Argentina) (2016.12.16 – ...)
* Horst Eberlein (2017.02.09 – ...), Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Hamburg (Germany), no previous prelature.