Vinda was an Ancient city and bishopric in North Africa and is now a Latin Catholic titular see.
History
Vinda was a city in the
Roman province
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of
Africa proconsularis
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, near modern Henchir-Bandou in present
Tunisia
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It was important enough to become a
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 ...
bishopric of the Metropolitan in the provincial capital,
Carthage.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored in 1928 as a Latin Catholic
titular see.
It has had the following incumbents, both of the lowest (episcopal) and intermediary (archiepiscopal) ranks :
* Titular Bishop Edgard Aristide Maranta,
Capuchin Friars Minor (O.F.M. Cap.) (1930.03.27 – 1953.03.25),
Apostolic Vicar of
Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania) (1930.03.27 – 1953.03.25), later promoted Metropolitan Archbishop of Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania) (1953.03.25 – 1968.12.19), also
Apostolic Administrator of
Zanzibar and Pemba (Tanzania) (1964.12.12 – 1966), later Titular Archbishop of
Castro
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(1968.12.19 – 1975.01.29)
* Titular Bishop Jean-Marie Villot (1954.09.02 – 1959.12.17),
Auxiliary Bishop of
Paris (France) (1954.09.02 – 1959.12.17), Titular Archbishop of
Bosporus (1959.12.17 – 1965.01.17), Coadjutor Archbishop of
Lyon (France) (1959.12.17 – 1965.01.17), succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Lyon (1965.01.17 – 1967.04.07), Undersecretary of the
Central Commission for the Coordination of the Postconciliar Work and the Interpretation of Conciliar Resolutions (1962 – 1965.01.17),
Cardinal-Priest of
SS. Trinità al Monte Pincio
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SS, Ss, or similar may also refer to:
Places
*Guangdong Experimental High School (''Sheng Shi'' or ''Saang Sat''), China
*Province of Sassari, Italy (vehi ...
(1965.02.25 – 1974.12.12), Prefect of Sacred Congregation for Clergy (1967.04.07 – 1969.04.23), President of the
Pontifical Commission for the Vatican City State (1969 – 1979.03.09), Papal Secretary of State of the
Papal Secretariat of State
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(1969.05.02 – 1979.03.09), Prefect of the
Council for the Public Affairs of the Church (1969.05.02 – 1979.03.09), President of the
Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (1969.05.02 – 1979.03.09),
Cardinal Protector of the
Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy
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(1969.05.02 – 1979.03.09),
Chamberlain of the Holy Roman Church of Apostolic Camera (1970.10.16 – 1979.03.09), President of the
Pontifical Council Cor Unum (1971.07.15 – 1978.09.04),
Cardinal-Bishop of
Frascati (1974.12.12 – 1979.03.09)
* Titular Bishop Eduardo Tomás Boza Masvidal (1960.03.31 – 2003.03.16)
* Titular Bishop Francesco Beschi (2003.03.25 – 2009.01.22)
* Titular Archbishop Franco Coppola (2009.07.16 – ...),
Apostolic Nuncio (papal ambassador) to
Chad
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and to the
Central African Republic
References
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External links
GigaCatolic with titular incumbent biography links
Catholic titular sees in Africa
Former Roman Catholic dioceses in Africa