Hilta
Hilta was an ancient city and former bishopric in Roman Africa, in the north of modern Tunisia. It is now a Latin Catholic titular see.
History
Hilta was important enough in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis to become a bishopric but later faded, presumably under the 7th century advent of Islam.It has had three historically documented bishops :
- Participants in the Council of Carthage in 411, included for Hilta the Catholic Hilarianus and the Donatist heretic Victor, whose schismatic party was firmly condemned.
- Pariator took part in the council of Carthage in 646 against monothelitism.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as a Latin Catholic titular bishopric of Hilta / Ilta / Hilten.It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal rank :
- Norberto Forero y García as Auxiliary Bishop of Roman [Catholic Diocese of Nueva Pamplona|Diocese of Nueva Pamplona] ; later Bishop of Santa Marta , died 1981
- Napoléon-Alexandre Labrie, Eudists as emeritate, died 1973; previously Titular Bishop of Limata as last Apostolic Vicar of Golfe Saint-Laurent , promoted as first Bishop of Golfe Saint-Laurent
- Józef Kazimierz Kluz as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Gdańsk
- Rafael Eleuterio Rey as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Mendoza ; later Bishop of Zárate-Campana
- Thomas Nguyễn Văn Trâm as Auxiliary Bishop of Xuân Lộc ; later first Bishop of daughter see Bà Rịa
- Jean-Abdo Arbach, Basilian Chouerite [Order of Saint John the Baptist] , as Apostolic Exarch of Argentina of the Greek-Melkites, as such next Titular Bishop of Palmyra of the Greek-Melkites, later Metropolitan Archbishop of Homs of the Greek-Melkites
- Christophe Zoa as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Yaoundé ; later Bishop of Sangmélima
- Gérald Cyprien Lacroix, Secular Institute Pius X as Auxiliary Bishop of Quebec , later succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Quebec, created Cardinal-Priest of S. Giuseppe all’Aurelio
- John Sherrington, as Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster , later succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Liverpool
- Relwendé Kisito Ouédraogo, as Apostolic Nuncio