Lesvi is a
Roman Catholic
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*Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD
*Roman people, the people of ancient Rome
*'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lette ...
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 ...
in the former
Ecclesiastical province
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of
Mauretania Sitifensis
Mauretania Sitifensis was a Roman province in Northwest Africa. The capital was Setifis.
History
In the later division of the Roman Empire under the Emperor Diocletian, the eastern part of Mauretania Caesariensis, from Saldae to the river Ampsa ...
,
suffragan
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In the Anglican Communion, a suffragan bishop is a bishop who is subordinate to a metropolitan bishop or diocesan bishop (bishop ordinary) and so is not normally jurisdictiona ...
of
Sitifis
Sétifis (Arabic: سطيف; Berber: Sṭif), was a Romano town located in northeastern Algeria. It was the capital of the Roman province called ''Mauretania Sitifensis'', and it is today Setif in the Sétif Province (Algeria).
History
Sitifis wa ...
, or
Sétif
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, in modern
Algeria
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[''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ), p. 916] It is not, as is sometimes stated, the
Island of Lesbos, which never was a titular bishopric, but possesses two titular
archbishopric
In 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 provinces were administratively associate ...
s:
Mytilene
Mytilene (; el, Μυτιλήνη, Mytilíni ; tr, Midilli) is the capital of the Greek island of Lesbos, and its port. It is also the capital and administrative center of the North Aegean Region, and hosts the headquarters of the University of ...
and
Methymna
Mithymna () ( el, Μήθυμνα, also sometimes spelled ''Methymna'') is a town and former municipality on the island of Lesbos, North Aegean, Greece. Since the 2019 local government reform it is part of the municipality of West Lesbos, of whic ...
.
Of Lesvi we only know, from the "Itinerarium Antonini", that it was situated twenty-five miles from
Tupusuctu or Tiklat and eighteen miles from
Horrea Aninici (now
Ain-Roua, south of
Béjaïa
Béjaïa (; ; ar, بجاية, Latn, ar, Bijāya, ; kab, Bgayet, Vgayet), formerly Bougie and Bugia, is a Mediterranean port city and commune on the Gulf of Béjaïa in Algeria; it is the capital of Béjaïa Province, Kabylia. Béjaïa is ...
). The town was therefore located on the Sava (Oued-Bou-Sellam). However, there are no archaeological remains.
Two of its bishops are recorded: Romanus, a
Donatist
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, present at the convention of Carthage, 411; Vadius, a Catholic exiled by the
Vandal
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The Vandals migrated to the area betw ...
King Huneric in 484.
The diocese was nominally restored as a Catholic
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 ...
.
It had had the following incumbents, all of the fitting episcopal rank :
* Auguste-Jean-Gabriel Maurice,
O.F.M. (1 Aug 1908 – 27 Jul 1925)
* Denis O’Donaghue (26 Jul 1924 – 7 Nov 1925)
* Simone Chu Kai-min,
S.J. (2 Aug 1926 – 11 Apr 1946)
* Timothy Finbar Manning (3 Aug 1946 – 16 Oct 1967)
* José Tomás Sánchez (5 Feb 1968 – 13 Dec 1971)
* Leopoldo Sumaylo Tumulak (12 Jan 1987 – 28 Nov 1992)
*
Juan María Leonardi Villasmil
Juan María Leonardi Villasmil (February 11, 1947, Boconó – June 7, 2014) was a Roman Catholic bishop.
Ordained to the priesthood in 1979, Villasmil was named titular bishop of Lesvi and auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese ...
(27 Jan 1994 – 12 Jul 1997)
* Antoni Dziemianko (4 Jul 1998 – 3 May 2012)
*
Bohdan Manyshyn (2014.04.02 – )
References
Sources
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Catholic hierarchy
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Catholic titular sees in Africa