Titular Bishopric of Vita
The Diocese of Vita or Vitensis is a former bishopric and Latin Catholic titular see.[1][2][3][4] The name Vita means life.
History
The ancient city of Vita's location is identified with the ruins of Beni-Derraj in modern Tunisia. It was important enough in the late Roman province of Byzacena [5] to become one of the many suffragan sees of its capital Hadrumetum (modern (Sousse))'s Metropolitan Archbishorpic. Founded during Roman Times, it survived the Vandal and Byzantine rule, but ceased to function following the Umayyad conquest of 670AD. Among the bishops of Vita is noted especially Victor ( 487 -?), an ecclesiastical writer who witnessed the occupation of Roman North Africa and the persecution of Catholics by the Vandals.[6][7]
Another well-known bishop of Vita was Pampiniano, a victim of the Arian 487AD persecution by Vandal king Genseric and remembered by the Roman martyrology on November 28.[8]
Titular see
The Roman Era town of Vita was also the seat of a diocese of Roman North Africa. There were two known bishops:
- Panpinianus (Catholic Bishop fl418-430.)
- Victor (Catholic Bishop fl 484.) exiled by the Vandal kingHuneric
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as a Latin titular bishopric.
It has had the following incumbents, of the (lowest) episcopal rank : [9][10][11]
- Timothy J. Corbett (25 June 1938 - death 20 July 1939), retired first Bishop of Crookston (Minnesota, USA) (1910.04.09 – 1938.06.25)
- Arthur Douville (30 November 1939 - 27 November 1942)
- Joseph Aloysius Burke (April 17, 1943 - February 7, 1952)
- Francisco Orozco Lomelín (19 March 1952 - 17 October 1990)
- Blessed Alvaro del Portillo (7 December 1990 - 23 March 1994)
- Pablo Cedano Cedano, (31 May 1996 - ...), Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic)
See also
References
- ↑ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae , Leipzig 1931, p. 470
- ↑ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana, Volume I, Brescia, 1816, pp. 357-358
- ↑ J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, Paris 1912, p. 51
- ↑ Vita at Catholic heirachy.org.
- ↑ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), "Sedi titolari", pp. 819-1013
- ↑ Victor of Vita. History of the Vandal Persecution. Translated by John Moorhead, (Translated Texts for Historians; 10). Liverpool, 1992.
- ↑ A. H. Merrills, "totum subuertere uoluerunt: ‘social martyrdom’ in the Historia persecutionis of Victor of Vita," in Christopher Kelly, Richard Flower, Michael Stuart Williams (еds), Unclassical Traditions. Vol. II: Perspectives from East and West in Late Antiquity (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011) (Cambridge Classical Journal; Supplemental Volume 35), 102-115.
- ↑ By Henri Irénée Marrou, André Mandouze, Anne-Marie La Bonnardière, Prosopographie de l'Afrique chrétienne (303-533)(Éditions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1982) p 1298
- ↑ Vita at GCatholic.org.
- ↑ Pablo Cedano Cedano
- ↑ Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 146, Number 12.770.