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Bita (Mauretania)

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Africa Proconsularis (125 AD).

Bita was an ancient city and former Roman Catholic diocese in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis. It is now a Latin Catholic titular see.

History

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Bita was important enough in the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis to become a suffragan of its capital Caesarea Mauretaniae's Metropolitan Archbishop. However it would fade.

Titular see

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The diocese was nominally restored in 1931 as a Latin Catholic titular bishopric, but has had a single Eastern Catholic incumbent.

It has had the following incumbents, generally of the lowest (episcopal) rank, except the latest (who was promoted to archiepiscopal, the intermediary rank) :

See also

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References

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