Sinnuara

The Diocese of Sinnuara (in Latin : Dioecesis Sinnuaritana) is a sede soppressa and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church. The bishopric is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Carthage.

The diocese was during the Roman Empire centered on a town called Sinnuara, in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis. That town is now lost but was in what is today Tunisia.

There are two documented bishops of this diocese:

  • The Catholic bishop, Stefano, who attended the Council of Carthage (411). It seem the city did not have at Donatist bishops at that time.
  • Bishop Paul, who took part in the synod called in Carthage in 484 by the Vandal king Huneric, after which Paul was exiled.
  • Today Sinnuara survives as titular bishopric and the current bishop is Felipe González González, Vicar Apostolic of Caroní.[1][2][3]
Africa Proconsularis (125 AD).

Known bishops of Sinnuara

References
  1. La sede titolare nel sito di www.catholic-hierarchy.org
  2. Sinnuara at www.gcatholic.org
  3. J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912), p.222.
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