The Diocese of Sicca Veneria was an episcopal see of Africa Proconsularis, and was a suffragan of the bishops of Carthage. The cathedra of the bishopric was in the Roman colonia (highest ranking city) of Colonia Julia Veneria Cirta Nova Iulia. Sicca Veneria, at New Advent.org.Trudy Ring, Middle East and Africa: International Dictionary of Historic Places (Routledge, 2014) p456. The bishopric was founded in early Christianity; it ceased to function sometime after the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb.
It exists today as a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church. The current bishop is Lajos Varga of Hungary.
Remains of the bishopric included ruins at El Kef of a cathedral, baptistry, Christian burials, and numerous Christian inscriptions.Sicca Veneria, at New Advent.org. Known bishops
Antiquity and Early Middle Ages
Castus, at the Council of Carthage (255), at which he addressed the meetingThe Epistles of S. Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage and Martyr (John Henry Parker, 1844) p 294. Patritius mentioned in 349; Fortunatianus mentioned in 407, present at the Council of Carthage (411) and spoken of by St. Augustine,Augustine Retractationes XLI Urbanus in 418, mentioned in 429 by Augustine,Augustine, "Epist." ccxxix Paul towards 480; Candidus in 646.Sicca Veneria, at New Advent.org.
Catholic
Gustave Marie Blanche Vicar Apostolic Golfe St-Laurent (Canada) 1905–1916 Titular Episcopal See of Sicca Veneria at GCatholic.org. Stanislaw Kostka Łukomski auxiliary bishop of Gniezno and Poznań 1920–1926 Kazimierz Tomczak Auxiliary Bishop of Łódź 1927–1967 Joseph Augustin Hagendorens (Zaire) 1968–1976 Felix Eugenio Mkhori (Malawi) 1977–1979 Kazimierz Romaniuk 1982–1992 Lajos Varga (Hungary) since May 27, 2006
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