• Source: Beneventum (Africa)

Beneventum was an ancient city and bishopric in Tunisia. It is now a Latin Catholic titular see.
Beneventum was a Roman and Byzantine era city in the province of Africa Proconsularis. Its presumed present location is at the ruins of Beniata, located near Bizerte in modern Tunisia.




History


Beneventum was import enough in the Roman province of Africa proconsularis to become a suffragan of its capital Carthage's Metropolitan Archbishop, yet was to fade.




Titular see


Very little is known of the ancient bishopric and though suffragan of the Archdiocese of Carthage no bishops are known by name. The diocese ceased to function with the arrival of the Islamic armies in the 7th century but was nominally restored in 1933 (Curiate Italian title Benevento. The city should not be confused with the Italian city of the same name.

It has following incumbents:

Titular Bishop Carlos Oviedo Cavada, O. de M. (21 March 1964 – 25 March 1974), Auxiliary Bishop of Conceptión, Chile
Titular Bishop Tadeusz Gocłowski, C.M. (22 March 1983 – 31 December 1984), Auxiliary Bishop of Gdańsk
Titular Archbishop Manuel Monteiro de Castro (16 February 1985 – 18 February 2012) as Apostolic Nuncio and official of the Roman Curia, until created cardinal
Titular Archbishop Konrad Krajewski (3 August 2013 – 28 June 2018), Almoner of His Holiness
Titular Archbishop Michael Czerny, S.J. (4 October 2019 – 5 October 2019), Undersecretary of the Migrants and Refugees Section of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development
Titular Archbishop Mitja Leskovar (1 May 2020 – present), Apostolic Nuncio to Iraq




See also


Catholic Church in Tunisia




References






External links


GCatholic with titular incumbent biography links

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Michael Czerny
• Pertempuran Sungai Bagradas (255 SM)
• Pengepungan Aspis
• Pertempuran Cartagena (209 SM)
• Pengepungan Lilybaeum (250–241 SM)
• Penarikan mundur pasukan Romawi dari Afrika (255 SM)
• Beneventum
• Beneventum (Africa)
• Battle of Beneventum (275 BC)
• Christianity in the Roman Africa province
• Duchy of Benevento
• Second Punic War
• Pyrrhic War
• Punic Wars
• Umbria gens
• Roman withdrawal from Africa (255 BC)