Gisipa Explained

The Diocese of Gisipa (la|Rite Gisipensis|link=no) is a home suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Carthage.^{[1] [2]}

Location

The bishopric of Gisipa, was centered on a Roman town called Gisipam, the location of which is now lost to history,^[3] although being in Africa Proconsularis it is certain that it was in what is modern north Tunisia.

History

The sources mention four bishops.

• The Catholic bishop, Gennaro attended the Council of Carthage (411)
• Carissimo took part in the Synod of Carthage in 484 called by the Vandal king Huneric, after which Carissimo was exiled
• Redento attended the Council of Carthage (525)
• Melloso signed the anti-monothelitism canon of 646.

Today Gisipa survives as titular bishop,^[4] the current bishop is Vitorino José Pereira Soares, Auxiliary Bishop of Porto.^{[5] [6]}

Notes and References

1. [Pius Bonifacius Gams]
2. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), pp. 173–174.
3. http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t0877.htm Titular Episcopal See of Gisipa
4. David Cheney, Gisipa in catholic-hierarchy.org.
5. http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t0877.htm Titular Episcopal See of Gisipa
6. Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 224, Number 18,559