St Kilda, Scotland
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for the island also referred to as Hilta''
Hilta was an ancient city and former bishopric in Roman Africa, in the north of modern
Tunisia
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. It is now a
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titular see
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.
History
Hilta was important enough in the
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of
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, in the papal sway, to become a
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bishopric of its capital
Carthage
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's Metropolitan Archbishop, but later faded, presumably under the 7th century advent of Islam.
It has had three historically documented bishops :
* Participants in the Council of Carthage in 411, included for Hilta the Catholic Hilarianus and the
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heretic Victor, whose schismatic party was firmly condemned.
* Pariator took part in the council of Carthage in 646 against
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.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as a Latin Catholic
titular bishopric
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of Hilta (Latin) / Ilta (Curiate Italian) / Hilten(sis) (Latin adjective).
It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank :
* Norberto Forero y García (1951.07.07 – 1956.05.27) as Auxiliary Bishop of
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) (1951.07.07 – 1956.05.27); later Bishop of
Santa Marta
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(Colombia) (1956.05.27 – retired 1971.06.02), died 1981
* Napoléon-Alexandre Labrie,
Eudists
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(1938.03.30 – 1945.12.22) as last
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of Golfe Saint-Laurent (Canada) (1938.03.30 – 1945.11.24), (see) promoted as first Bishop of Golfe Saint-Laurent (now Diocese of Baie-Comeau) (1945.11.24 – 1956.12.07)
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* Thomas Nguyễn Văn Trâm (1992.03.06 – 2005.11.22) as Auxiliary Bishop of Xuân Lộc (
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) (2006.11.30 – 2008.12.04); later Bishop of
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(Cameroon) (2008.12.04 – ...)
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Secular Institute Pius X
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