Sita, Mauritania
Sita is an ancient city and former diocese in the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis. It remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
History
Sita, located somewhere in modern Algeria, was one of many cities important enough in the western part of the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis, in the papal sway, to become a suffragan diocese, but like most faded, plausibly at the 7th century advent of Islam.Its only historically recorded bishops were:
- The Donatist schismatic Saturnus partook in the Council of Carthage in 411, on that very heresy, without Catholic counterpart.
- Catholic bishop Reparatus attended the synod called in Carthage in 484 on the same schism by king Huneric of the Vandal Kingdom, after which he was exiled like most Catholic bishops.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin Titular bishopric of Sita, Latin adjective Siten.It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal rank:
- Christian Herman Winkelmann as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Saint Louis, later Bishop of Wichita
- Joseph O’Brien as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Hartford, succeeding as last suffragan Bishop of Hartford, promoted first Metropolitan Archbishop of Hartford, emeritate as Titular Archbishop of Uthina ; died 1976
- Daniel Joseph Feeney as Auxiliary Bishop of Portland in Maine ; later Coadjutor Bishop of Portland in Maine, succeeding as Bishop of Portland in Maine
- Alexander Carter as Coadjutor Bishop of [Roman Catholic Diocese of Roman Catholic Diocese of Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario|Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario|Sault Sainte Marie] ; next succeeded as Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie, also President of Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops ; died 2002
- Angelo Zambarbieri as Coadjutor Bishop of Guastalla, next succeeding as Bishop of Guastalla
- James Ward as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Glasgow
- Enrique Alvear Urrutia as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Santiago ; previously Titular Bishop of Columnata as Auxiliary Bishop of Talca, Bishop of San Felipe
- José Palmeira Lessa as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of (São Sebastião do) Rio de Janeiro ; next Bishop of Propriá, Coadjutor Archbishop of Aracaju succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Aracaju
- Moacyr José Vitti, Stigmatines as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Curitiba, next Bishop of Piracicaba, Metropolitan Archbishop of above Curitiba
- Štefan Sečka as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Spiš, succeeding as Bishop of Spiš
- Joaquim Wladimir Lopes Dias as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Vitória, also Apostolic Administrator of Diocese of Colatina, succeeding as Bishop of Colatina
- Udo Markus Bentz as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Mainz, nor previous prelature