Tisedi

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Tisedi was an ancient city and episcopal see, which remains a Latin Church titular see within the Catholic Church.

History

Tisedi, located near modern Aziz-Ben-Tellis in present Algeria, was one of many towns in the Roman province of Numidia which was important enough to become a suffragan bishopric but faded completely.

Three of its residential bishops are recorded (although author Morcelli assigns them to Tiddi):

  • Donatus I suffered gravely, according to Saint Optatus (bishop of Milevis), under the heresy Donatism and was deprived of his see in 362 by their bishop Felix of Idicra
  • The Council of Carthage (484), called by Huneric of the Vandal Kingdom, was attended for Tisedi by both a Catholic bishop Lampadius, who was banished afterwards, and his Donatist counterpart, Donatus.

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as the Latin Church titular see of Tisedi (Latin)/Tisedi (Curiate Italian)/Tiseditanus (Latin adjective).

It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank:

Sources and references

  • GCatholic - data for all sections
  • J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, Paris 1912, pp. 433–434
  • H. Jaubert, Anciens évêchés et ruines chrétiennes de la Numidie et de la Sitifienne, in Recueil des Notices et Mémoires de la Société archéologique de Constantine, vol. 46, 1913, p. 95