Africa Proconsularis (125 AD)
The Diocese of Bennefa (Latin: Rite Bennefensis ) is a home suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church .
Bennefa, identifiable with Oglet-Khefifa in modern Tunisia,[1] is an ancient civitas of the Roman province of Byzacena .[2] and a seat of an ancient Christian episcopal see .[3] The diocese was mentioned by Augustine of Hippo .[4]
There are four known bishops of this diocese .
Guntasio Cabarsussi participated in the council, held in 393 by Maximianus , a dissident sect of the Donatists , and they signed the acts of the conference.[5]
At the Council of Carthage in 411 , Catholic Bishop Emiliano represented the city. The Donatist cause was not represented due to the death of the bishop Maximian on the eve of the conference.[6]
Among the Catholic bishops summoned to Carthage in 484 by the Vandal king Huneric was Ortolano,[7] who then was exiled, as recalled by the Roman martyrology on the date of 28 November.
Today Bennefa survives as titular bishopric [8] and the current bishop is Héctor Mario Pérez Villarreal , of Monterrey .[9]
References
^ Titular Episcopal See of Bennefa at GCatholic.org.
^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae , (Leipzig, 1931), p. 464
^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana , Volume I (Brescia, 1816), pp. 100–101.
^ Bennefa sul sito dell'Associazione storico-culturale di Sant'Agostino .
^ Patrologia Latina , XXXVI, coll. 376 e 381.
^ Patrologia Latina , XI, coll. 1304 e 1337.
^ Patrologia Latina , t. LVIII, coll. 271 e 315.
^ Auguste Audollent, v. Benefensis in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques , vol. VII, 1934, col. 1237
^ David Cheney, Diocesi di Bennefa , su Catholic-Hierarchy.org