Musti in Numidia, also called ''Musti Numidiae'', was an ancient city and bishop

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^(bishopric), and is presently a

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,^{(bishop's government see of a former government under a church's responsibility, also known as a dead diocese.)} in modern

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History

It was important enough in the

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to become a

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ric of its capital's Metropolitan Archbishop of

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(modern

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), but later faded. There also was another city and bishopric called Musti in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis, which Sophrone PétridèsSophrone Pétridès, ''The Catholic Encyclopedia'' 10, 1911
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(modern

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), even to the extent of presenting the supposed single see as represented at the 411 Council at Carthage by four bishops, two Donatist ( Felicianus and Cresconius) and two

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(Victorianus and Leontius). J. Mesnage distinguishes between the two sees, assigning Felicianus and Victorianus to the Musti of Proconsular Africa, a suffragan of Carthage, and Cresconius and Leontius to what he calls Musti Numidiae. The

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's list of

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s also distinguishes between the two, calling one see simply ''Musti'' and the other ''Musti in Numidia''. Mesnage also distinguishes between the sees of two other bishops of whom Pétridès speaks as bishops of a single Musti: an Antonianus of the Numidian Musti was one of the bishops whom the Vandal king Huneric exiled in 482, and the Januarius who in 646 signed the letter of the bishops of Proconsular Africa to Paul, Patriarch of Constantinople, against the monothelites, was obviously of that province.

Titular see

The bishopric was founded during the

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and survived through the

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Vandal Kingdom and

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, only ceasing to function with the

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.J. Mesnage, ''L'Afrique chrétienne'', (Paris, 1912), p. 424.

Known bishops

*Leonzio (

bishop mentioned at Council of Carthage (411) * Cresconio ( Donatist bishop) (mentioned at Council of Carthage (411) * Anthony (Catholic bishop attended the synod in Carthage in 484 called by the

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king, Huneric, after which Anthony was exiled) The

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was nominally restored as a Latin Catholic

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ric only in 1989. It has had the following incumbents, all of the lowest (episcopal) rank: *

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(1992.07.16 – 1999.01.23), as Auxiliary Bishop of

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(Italy) (1992.07.16 – 1999.01.23); later Bishop of Acireale (Italy) (1999.01.23 – 2002.06.07), Metropolitan Archbishop of

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(Italy) (2002.06.07 – ...) *

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(2000.05.13 – 2006.04.07) * Peter Štumpf,

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(2006.05.24 – 2009.11.28) * Paolo Martinelli,

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(2014.05.24 – ...), Auxiliary Bishop of

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References

Sources and external links

GigaCatholic, with titular incumebnt biography links
* {{CathEncy, wstitle=Musti * J. Mesnage
''L'Afrique chrétienne''
Paris 1912, p. 424 Catholic titular sees in Africa Former Roman Catholic dioceses in Africa