Fissiana
The Diocese of Fissiana (in Latin Rite Fissianensis) is a home suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.
Location
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The exact location for the seat of the diocese is unknown,[1] though Fissiana, is tentatively located somewhere near Foussana in modern Tunisia. In antiquity it was within the Roman province of Byzacena,[2][3] corresponding to the modern Sahel region of Tunisia.
History
Of this dioceses only two Donatist bishops are known.
- Donato who participated in the Council of Cabarsussi, held in 393 by Maximianus, a dissident sect of the Donatists, and he signed the acts of that Council.
- At the Council of Carthage (411), Bishop Turrasio represented the town, no Catholic competitor attended the conference.
That the town was a stronghold of Donatism is not surprising, as it is located close to the heartland of that movement with many of the first Donatist congregations forming in the semi-arid region to the west and south west of Foussana.
Today Fissiana survives as titular bishopric[1] and the current bishop is Darius Trijonis, Auxiliary bishop of Vilnius.[4]
Known bishops
- Donato (fl 393) (Donatist)
- Turrasio (fl 411) (Donatist)
- Francis Arinze (Nigeria) July 6, 1965 – 26 June 1967
- Leo Rajendram Antony (Sri Lanka) 3 August 1968 – 15 February 1974
- Joseph Valerius Sequeira (Myanmar) 20 October 1984 – 24 January 1986
- Julio Ojeda Pascual (Peru) March 30, 1987 – 28 April 2013
- Fernando Martín Croxatto (Argentina) from 13 March 2014
- Darius Trijonis (Lituania) from 29 September 2018
References
- Titular Episcopal See of Fissiana. at GCatholic.org.
- Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 465.
- Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia 1816), p. 159
- Fissiana at catholic-hierarchy.org.