Bocconia, Numidia

Bocconia was an ancient city and former bishopric in Roman North Africa, which only remains a Latin Catholic titular see.

History

Bocconia was among the cities of sufficient importance to become a suffragan diocese in the Roman province of Numidia, in the papal sway, but faded so completely, probably at the {{Muslim conquest of the Maghreb|7th century advent of Islam]], than even its precise location in present Algeria is unclear.

Its only historically documented bishops were :

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin titular bishopric of Bocconia (Latin = Curiate Italian) / Bocconien(sis) (Latin).

It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank :

  • Thomas F. Quinlan (구 토마), Columban Missionaries (S.S.C.M.E.) (1965.11.16 – death 1970.12.31) as emeriate; previously first and only Apostolic Prefect of Shunsen (South Korea) (1940–1943 and 1948.11.12 – 1950.07.16), (see) restyled first and only Apostolic Prefect of [[Apostolic Prefecture of Shunsen|Shunsen (South Korea) (1950.07.16 – 1955.09.20), (see) promoted first and only Apostolic Vicar of Chuncheon 춘천 (1955.09.20 – 1962.03.10), President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Korea (1959–1964), (see) promoted first Bishop of Chuncheon 춘천 (1962.03.10 – 1965.11.16)
  • Simon Ignatius Pimenta (1971.06.05 – 1977.02.26) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Bombay (India) (1971.06.05 – 1977.02.26); later Coadjutor Archbishop of Bombay (1977.02.26 – 1978.09.11), Metropolitan Archbishop of Bombay (1978.09.11 – retired 1996.11.08), President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (1982–1988 and 1993–1997), created Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria «Regina Mundi» a Torre Spaccata (1988.06.28 – death 2013.07.19)
  • Ernest Mesmin Lucien Cabo (1983.07.02 – 1984.07.02) as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Basse-Terre (Guadeloupe, French Antilles) (1983.07.02 – 1984.07.02); next succeeded as Bishop of Basse-Terre (1984.07.02 – 2008.05.15)
  • Gregory Taik Maung (1984.11.08 – ...), as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Pyay (Burma = Myanmar) (1984.11.08 – retired 2010.07.16) and Apostolic Administrator sede plena of Pyay (1991 – 2010.07.16), next as emeritate.

See also

Bibliography
  • Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 464
  • Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 104
  • Auguste Audollent, lemma 'Bocconiensis' in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. IX, 1937, col. 311
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