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The diocese of Vannida Latin: Dioecesis Vannidensis) is a suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church. It was centered on the ancient Roman town of Vannida,[1] in what is today Algeria, is an ancient episcopal seat of the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis.[2][3]

The only known bishop of this diocese was Rogaziano, who took part in the synod assembled in Carthage in 484 by the Vandal King Huneric]], after which Rogaziano was exiled. Today Vannida survives as a titular bishopric and the current Archbishop is Félix del Blanco Prieto.[4]

References

  1. ^ Titular Episcopal See of Vannida, GCatholic.org.
  2. ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 469.
  3. ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p.346.
  4. ^ Cheney, David M. "Vannida (Titular See) [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2018-02-01.


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