Ita was an ancient city and former bishopric in

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, now a Latin Catholic

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History

Media was important enough in the

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to become one of the many

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s, but was to fade completely, no ruins being identified. Its only historically documented bishop was Lucius, who attended the Council of Carthage in 484 called by the

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king

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of the Vandal Kingdom, after which he was banished like most Catholic participants, unlike the

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heretical counterparts.

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The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin

titular bishopric A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular metropolitan" (highest rank), "titular archbish ...

of Ita (Latin = Curiate Italian) / Iten(sis) (Latin adjective). It is vacant, having had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank: * Tadeusz Stanisław Szwagrzyk (1964.11.03 – death 1992.12.07) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Częstochowa (Poland) (1964.11.03 – 1992.12.07) * James Anthony Tamayo (1993.01.26 – 2000.07.03) as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Galveston–Houston (

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, USA) (1993.01.26 – 2000.07.03); later first Bishop of Laredo (Texas, USA) (2000.07.03 – ...) * Pedro Luiz Stringhini (2001.01.03 – 2009.12.30) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of São Paulo (Brazil) (2001.01.03 – 2009.12.30); later Bishop of

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(Brazil) (2009.12.30 – 2012.09.19), Bishop of

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(Brazil) (2012.09.19 – ...) * Gabriel Edoe Kumordji,

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(S.V.D.) (2010.01.19 – 2017.03.16) as first

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(

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) (2010.01.19 – 2017.03.16); previously last Prefect Apostolic of Donkorkrom (2007.06.12 – 2010.01.19); later Bishop of Keta–Akatsi (Ghana) (2017.03.16 – ...).

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; Bibliography * Pius Bonifacius Gams, ''Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae'', Leipzig 1931, p. 466 * Stefano Antonio Morcelli, ''Africa christiana'', Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 191 Catholic titular sees in Africa Suppressed Roman Catholic dioceses {{Africa-RC-diocese-stub

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