Menefessi
Menefessi is a former Ancient city and bishopric and present Latin Catholic titular see in present Tunisia.
History
On a site near modern Henchir-Djemmiah was a city which in Roman time belonged to the North African Roman province of Byzacena and was important enough to become a suffragan bishopic, but faded.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as a Latin Catholic titular bishopric.
It has had the following incumbents, both of the lowest (episcopal) and intermediary (archiepiscopal) ranks :
- Titular Bishop Ignatius John Doggett, Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (1969.06.06 – 1976.07.07)
- Titular Archbishop Frédéric Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi, Scheutists (C.I.C.M.) (1976.07.08 – 1977.11.11), later Cardinal-Priest of Santa Lucia a Piazza d’Armi (1991.06.28 – 2007.01.06)
- Titular Bishop István Ács, Pauline Fathers (O.S.P.P.E.) (1988.12.23 – 1993.03.27)
- Titular Bishop José Trinidad González Rodríguez (1997.02.21 – ...), Auxiliary Bishop-emeritus of Guadalajara
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