The Diocese of Cusira is a home suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.
Cusira was a civitas of the Roman province of Byzacena, and is identifiable with Kessera (Kesra) in the Siliana GovernorateKessera: Tunisia, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Bethesda, MD, US . modern Tunisia.Titular Episcopal See of Chusira at GCatholic.org. Cusira was on the Limes Tripolitanus, atKessera. 9.36482N 35.81447E, flourished from 330BC to about 640AD, was a city of refuge during nomad invasions from the south,JB Bury, History of the Later Roman Empire, Vol. II, Capitolo 17. and was the seat of an ancient episcopal see. At this venue, according to some authors including Mesnage and Ferron, could be attributed to the bishop Felix Custrensis, who was among the Catholic bishops summoned to Carthage in 484 by the Vandal king Huneric.J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912), p. 96.J. Ferron, v. Custrensis in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. XIII, Parigi 1956, coll. 1117–1118.
Today Cusira survives as titular bishopricDavid Cheney, Diocesi di Cusira, at Catholic-Hierarchy.org. and the current bishop is Łukasz Mirosław Buzun, of Kalisz.
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