Apisa Maius
Apisa Maius is a former Roman-Berber city and present Latin Catholic titular bishopric.
History
Apisa Maius was an Ancient city in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis.It was a bishopric, suffragan to the Metropolitan of Carthage.
Its ruins are at Tarf-Ech-Chena, in modern Tunisia.
Titular see
In 1933, the diocese was nominally revived as a titular see of the lowest rank.So far, it had the following consecutive incumbents, all members of Latin congregations:
- Johannes [Theodor Suhr], Benedictines
- Lorenzo Miccheli Filippetti, Augustinians
- Julio [Terrazas Sandoval], Redemptorists
- Josephus Tethool, Missionaries of the [Sacred Heart of Jesus]
- Charles Mahuza Yava, Salesians, Bishop-emeritus of Ambanja, Apostolic Vicar of Apostolic Vicariate of the Comoros Archipelago