The diocese of Benepota (Latin: Dioecesis Benepotensis) is a suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.

History

Benepota, in today's Algeria, is an ancient bishopric of the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis.[1] [2][3] The location of the see is not currently known,[4] But what is known is that the Bishop of the town attended a meeting of bishops convened in Carthage in 484 by King Huneric the Vandal.[5]

Today Benepota survives as a titular bishopric and the current bishop is Leopold Hermes Garin Bruzzone, of Canelones.[6]

Known bishops

References

  1. Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p.464.
  2. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), pp.99–100.
  3. Auguste Audollent, "Benepotensis", in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. VII, 1934, col. 1276.
  4. Benepota at www.gcatholic.org
  5. Patrologia Latina, vol.LVIII, coll. 274 e 339.
  6. Cheney, David M. "Benepota (Titular See) [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2018-01-29.


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