The Diocese of Oea (Latin: Dioecesis Oëensis) is a suppressed and titular See of the Roman Catholic Church.
History edit
Oea, corresponding to the city of Tripoli in present-day Libya, is an ancient episcopal seat of the Roman province of Africa Nova, Tripolitania.
The diocese is still mentioned in the Notitiae Episcopatuum written by the Byzantine emperor Leo VI the Wise. (886-912)[1]
Bishops edit
- Natal † (cited in 256)
- Marinianus † (cited in 411) (donatist bishop)
- Saint Cresconius † (before 467 - after 484)
Titular bishops edit
- Bernardo Maria Beamonte, O.C.D. † (1728 - 1733)
- Francesco di Ottaiano, O.F.M. † (1735 - ?)
- Alessandro Grossi † (1876 - 1889)[2]
- Luigi Giuseppe Lasagna, S.D.B. † (1893 - 1895)
- Jean-Baptiste Grosgeorge, M.E.P. † (1896 - 1902)
- Francesco Bacchini † (1905 - 1908)
- Vittore Maria Corvaia, O.S.B. † (1908 - 1913)
- Salvatore Ballo Guercio † (1920 - 1933 appointed bishop of Mazara del Vallo)
- Camille Verfaillie, S.C.I. † (1934 - 1980)
- Michel Louis Coloni † (11 May 1982 - 30 January 1989, appointed archbishop of Dijon)
- Michel Marie Jacques Dubost, C.I.M. (9 August 1989 - 7 March 1998)
- David Kamau Ng'ang'a, from 22 December 1999
References edit
- ^ Hieroclis Synecdemus et notitiae graecae episcopatuum, accedunt Nili Doxapatrii notitia patriarchatuum et locorum nomina immutata, ex recognitione Gustavi Parthey, Berlin 1866, p. 83 (nº 798).
- ^ As well described in the Acta Sanctae Sedis, p. 626, Alessandro Grossi succeeds Filippo Mainetti on Tripoli di Fenicia; however, when these, at the consitory of December 30, 1889, were transferred to the titular archbishopric of Nicopolis, the Acta Sanctae Sedis indicated it as episcopum Oensem (cfr. ASS 22 (1889-90), p. 334).
Bibliography edit
- Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig, 1931, p. 467
- Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia, 1816, pp. 249–250
- Konrad Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi, vol. 5, p. 295; vol. 6, p. 316
- Joseph Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, Paris, 1912, p. 164