Zella (see)

The Diocese of Zella (Latin: Dioecesis Zellensis) is a suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.

Africa Proconsularis (125 AD)

[1][2] The diocese of Zella, is located in today's Tunisia.

During the Roman Empire the Diocese was centered on a Roman town of the Roman province of Byzacena. During late antiquity the city had both a Donatist and Catholic congregation. These two both sent bishops to the Conference of Carthage of 411.[3][4]

Today Zella survives as a titular bishopric and the current archbishop, personal title, is Angelo Acerbi, who was already the prelate of the Order of Malta's military sovereign.

Known bishops
  • Donaziano † (fl411)
  • Natalico † (fl 411) (Donatist bishop)
  • Franz Brazys (1964–1967)
  • Cesare Zacchi (1967–1974)
  • Angelo Acerbi (1974)

References
  1. Zella at www.catholic-hierarchy.org
  2. Zellae at www.gcatholic.org
  3. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 370
  4. Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, [Leipzig, 1931), p. 470.
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