The diocese of Vissalsa ( la, Dioecesis Vissalsensis, link=no) is a suppressed and

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of the

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, in the province of

Mauretania Caesariensis Mauretania Caesariensis (Latin for "Caesarean Mauretania") was a Roman province located in what is now Algeria in the Maghreb. The full name refers to its capital Caesarea Mauretaniae (modern Cherchell). The province had been part of the Kingd ...

. The

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of the bishopric is not known to history. The only known bishop of this African diocese is Saturnino, who took part in the synod assembled in Carthage in 484 by King Huneric of the Vandal Kingdom, after which Saturnino was exiled, possibly to Vandal-controlled

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. Today Vissalsa survives as a

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ric and the current bishop is Neal Buckon, auxiliary bishop of the military ordination in the United States.Vissalsa
at www.catholic-hierarchy.org

References

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