Cissita
Cissita was a town and bishopric of Roman North Africa, which only remains as a Catholic titular see.
History
Cissita was located about 36°54'04"N 10°2' 9.96"W and has been tentatively identified with ruins near Sidi T(h)abet, 24 kilometers from Tunis.The town was among the many civitates of the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis of sufficient importance to become a suffragan diocese of the metropolitan of Carthage, in the papal sway, but like most faded completely, probably at the 7th-century advent of Islam.
Two of its bishops are historically documented :
- Quodvultdeus was among the Donatist bishops present at the Carthage (411)">Carthage (episcopal see)">Carthage (411), where his schismatic heresy was condemned as such.
- Crescens was among the Catholic prelates at the Council of Carthage in 484 by king Huneric of the Vandal Kingdom, and was exiled following the conference like most Catholic bishops.
Titular see
It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting Episcopal rank:
- Heinrich Gleumes as Auxiliary Bishop of Roman [Catholic Diocese of Münster|Diocese of Münster]
- Francis Clement van Hoeck, Subiaco Cassinese Benedictines , first as Abbot Ordinary of the Territorial [Abbey of Pietersburg] , then as emeritate
- Antonio Pagano
- Salvatore Di Salvo
- Octavio Villegas Aguilar, first as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Morelia , then on emeritate.