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Diocese Of Sita
The Diocese of Sita ( la, Dioecesis Sitensis, link=no) was a Christian diocese in Africa Proconsularis. It is presently a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church. History In antiquity, the bishopric of Sita was centered on a Roman–Berber civitas of the province of Mauretania Caesariensis. The exact location of that Roman town is now lost to history but to was somewhere in today's Algeria. At the 411 Carthage conference, between the Catholic and Donatist bishops of Roman North Africa The town was represented by the Donatist Saturn, without a Catholic opponent. Then in 484, the town was represented by Reparato at the synod assembled in Carthage by the Arian King Huneric the Vandal. At the conclusion of that Council, Reparato was exiled. Today Sita survives as a titular bishopric and the current bishop is Udo Bentz, auxiliary bishop of Mainz, who replaced Joaquim Wladimir Lopes Dias Joaquim is the Portuguese language, Portuguese and Catalan language, Cata ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diocese
In Ecclesiastical polity, church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, provinces were administratively associated in a larger unit, the Roman diocese, diocese (Latin ''dioecesis'', from the Greek language, Greek term διοίκησις, meaning "administration"). Christianity was given legal status in 313 with the Edict of Milan. Churches began to organize themselves into Roman diocese, dioceses based on the Roman diocese, civil dioceses, not on the larger regional imperial districts. These dioceses were often smaller than the Roman province, provinces. Christianity was declared the Empire's State church of the Roman Empire, official religion by Theodosius I in 380. Constantine the Great, Constantine I in 318 gave litigants the right to have court cases transferred from the civil courts to the bishops. This situ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
