Dystis

Dystis was a city and bishopric in Roman Libya, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.

Its modern location has been postulated in northern Tunisia or somewhere in southern modern Libya.

History

Dystis was important enough in the Roman province of Libya Superior -Libya Pentapolitana; originally part of Cyrenaica (and Crete)- to become one of the suffragan sees in this province,[1][2][3] which depend directly on the Patriarchate of Alexandria (in Egypt) without a proper Metropolitan, but faded like most bishoprics in Roman Africa.

Its only recorded Suffragan Bishops were :

  • Samuel, participant in the (minor) council of Ephesus in 431
  • Petrus, attending the Synod of Constantinople (458)|synod of Constantinople in 458]] against simony.

Titular see

In 1933 the diocese was nominally restored as Latin Titular bishopric of Dystis / Dystien(sis) (Latin adjective) / Disti (Curiate Italian).[4]

It is vacant, having had only these incumbents, all of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank, with an archiepiscopal exception (pro hac vice) [5]:

See also

Bibliography
  • Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig, 1931, p. 462
  • Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Paris, 1740, Vol. II, coll. 629-630
  • Raymond Janin, lemma 'Dysthis' in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. XIV, Paris, 1960, col. 1252

References

  1. ↑ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 462.
  2. ↑ Michel Le Quien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, (Paris, 1740), Tomo II, coll. 629-630.
  3. ↑ Raymond Janin, v. Dysthis in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. XIV, (Paris, 1960), col. 1252.
  4. ↑ Entry at www.gcatholic.org.
  5. ↑ David Cheney, Diocese of Dysti, at Catholic-Hierarchy.org.
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