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Pertusa (Africa)

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Pertusa was an ancient city and diocese in Tunisia. It is now a Catholic titular bishopric.

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History

Pertusa was an Ancient city on the site of modern El-Haraïria. It was located in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis.

It was important enough to become a bishopric, suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Carthage.

Titular see

It was nominally revived in 1933 as a Latin titular see of the lowest (episcopal) in 1933, and has almost constantly been awarded. Its incumbents were mostly secular priests :

  • Giorgio Giuseppe Haezaert, Spiritans (C.S.Sp.) (1935.06.18 – 1957.09.29), as first Apostolic Vicar of Northern Katanga (in then Belgian Congo)
  • Leonard Philip Cowley (1957.11.28 – 1973.08.18)
  • George Kinzie Fitzsimons (1975.05.20 – 1984.03.28)
  • Kazimierz Górny (1984.10.26 – 1992.03.25)
  • Roberto Rodríguez (1992.11.12 – 1998.06.23)
  • Liborius Ndumbukuti Nashenda, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (O.M.I.) (1998.11.05 – 2004.09.21), as Auxiliary Bishop of Windhoek (capital of Namibia) (1998.11.05 – 2004.09.21), next Metropolitan Archbishop of Windhoek (2004.09.21 – ...) and President of Namibian Catholic Bishop’s Conference (September 2007 – ...)
  • Philippe Jean-Charles Jourdan, (2005.04.01 – ...), Apostolic Administrator of Estonia
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