The diocese of Vissalsa (Latin: Dioecesis Vissalsensis) is a suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church, in the province of Mauretania Caesariensis.[1][2][3][4] The seat of the bishopric is not known to history.
The only known bishop of this African diocese is Saturnino, who took part in the synod assembled in Carthage in 484 by King Huneric of the Vandal Kingdom, after which Saturnino was exiled, possibly to Vandal-controlled Sicily.
Today Vissalsa survives as a titular bishopric and the current bishop is Neal Buckon, auxiliary bishop of the military ordination in the United States.[5]
References
edit- ^ Vissalsa at www.gcatholic.org
- ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 469.
- ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 357
- ^ Apostolische Nachfolge – Titularsitze.
- ^ Vissalsa at www.catholic-hierarchy.org
 | This article about a location in Algiers Province is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |