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Vassinassa

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Africa Proconsularis (125 AD)

Vassinassa was an ancient RomanBerber city in the province of Byzacena. The exact location of the town is not known for certain, but it was in northern Tunisia.

Bishopric

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Vassinassa was the seat of an ancient bishopric,[1] which remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic church called Dioecesis Tigualensis. The seat is remembered by the Episcopal list Byzacena of 484, but does not indicate the name of the bishop.

Today the bishopric of Vassinassa survives as titular bishop[2][3][4] and the current titular bishop is Bogdan Józef Wojtuś, of Gniezno.[5][6] of the Roman Catholic Church.

History

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Vassinassa, in today's Tunisia, is an ancient episcopal seat of the province of Bizacena.

The seat is mentioned in the Episcopal list of the Byzacena of 484, but the name of the bishop is not indicated.

Today Vassinassa survives as a titular bishop's seat; the current titular bishop is Bogdan Józef Wojtuś, former auxiliary bishop of Gniezno.

Bishops

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References

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  1. ^ Joseph Bingham, Origines ecclesiasticae, Volume 3 (1840) p231.
  2. ^ J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912), p.233
  3. ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 469
  4. ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 347
  5. ^ Vassinassa at GCatholic.org.
  6. ^ Vassinassa at catholic-hierarchy.org.