Dystis

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Dystis was a city and bishopric in Roman Libya, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.

Its modern location has been postulated in northern Tunisia or somewhere in southern modern Libya.

History[]

Dystis was important enough in the Roman province of Libya Superior -Libya Pentapolitana; originally part of Cyrenaica (and Crete)- to become one of the suffragan sees in this province,[1][2][3] which depend directly on the Patriarchate of Alexandria (in Egypt) without a proper Metropolitan, but faded like most bishoprics in Roman Africa.

Its only recorded Suffragan Bishops were:

  • Samuel, participant in the (minor) council of Ephesus in 431
  • Petrus, attending the (458) |synod of Constantinople in 458 against simony.

Titular see[]

In 1933 the diocese was nominally restored as Latin Titular bishopric of Dystis / Dystien(sis) (Latin adjective) / Disti (Curiate Italian).[4]

It is vacant, having had only these incumbents, all of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank, with an archiepiscopal exception (pro hac vice):[5]

  • André-Joseph-Prosper Dupont, White Fathers (M. Afr.) (1941.07.08 – 1955.09.14) as last Apostolic Vicar of Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso, then Upper Volta) (1941.07.08 – 1955.09.14), next promoted first Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Bobo-Dioulasso (1955.09.14 – retired 1974.12.12); died 1999
  • Antonio Oña de Echave (1956.03.27 – 1961.05.24) as Auxiliary Bishop of Lugo (Spain) (1956.03.27 – 1961.05.24), next succeeded as Bishop of Lugo (1961.05.24 – retired 1979.07.25); died 1987
  • Titular Archbishop Emilio de Brigard Ortiz (1961.10.26 – death 1986.03.06) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Bogotá (Colombia) (1944.07.29 – 1986.03.06), which he was previously as Titular Bishop of Coracesium (1944.07.29 – 1961.10.26).

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Bibliography
  • Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig, 1931, p. 462
  • Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Paris, 1740, Vol. II, coll. 629-630
  • Raymond Janin, lemma 'Dysthis' in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. XIV, Paris, 1960, col. 1252

References[]

  1. ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 462.
  2. ^ Michel Le Quien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, (Paris, 1740), Tomo II, coll. 629-630.
  3. ^ Raymond Janin, v. Dysthis in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. XIV, (Paris, 1960), col. 1252.
  4. ^ Entry at www.gcatholic.org.
  5. ^ David Cheney, Diocese of Dysti, at Catholic-Hierarchy.org.
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