The diocese of Benepota () 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.Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p.464. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), pp.99–100.Auguste Audollent, "Benepotensis", in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. VII, 1934, col. 1276. The location of the see is not currently known,Benepota at www.gcatholic.org 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.Patrologia Latina, vol.LVIII, coll. 274 e 339.
Today Benepota survives as a titular bishopric and the current bishop is Leopold Hermes Garin Bruzzone, of Canelones.
Known bishops Honorius (fl.484 AD) Francisco Rendeiro, (1965–1967) José Cerviño Cerviño (1968–1976) Tadeusz Rybak (1977–1992) Leopoldo Hermes Garin Bruzzone, (2002–current)
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