Praesidium (bishopric)

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The diocese of Presidio (Latin: Dioecesis Praesidiensis) is a suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.[1]

History[]

Africa Proconsularis (125 AD)

Presidium, identifiable with ruins at Henchir-Somâa in present-day Tunisia, is an ancient episcopal seat of the Roman province of Byzacena.[2]

There are two bishops known from this diocese.[3] [4]

  • The Leonatist a Donatist, who took part in the Carthage conference of 411, which brought together the Catholic and Donatist bishops of Roman North Africa.
  • Fausto attended the synod gathered in Carthage by the Vandal king Huneric in 484, after which Fausto was exiled.

Today, Presidio survives as a titular see; the current titular bishop is Roger William Gries, former auxiliary bishop of Cleveland.

bishops[]

  • Leonzio † (mentioned in 411) (Donatist bishop)
  • Fausto † (mentioned in 484)
  • † (May 17, 1965 - April 8, 1967 appointed titular bishop of Canne)
  • † (19 February 1969 - 12 May 2000 deceased)
  • Roger William Gries, since 3 April 2001

References[]

  1. ^ Praesidium, Catholic-Hierarchy.org.
  2. ^ Titular Episcopal See of Præsidium, GCatholic.org.
  3. ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 467.
  4. ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 256.

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