Beneventum (Africa)


Beneventum was an ancient city and bishopric in Tunisia. It is now a Latin Catholic titular see.
Beneventum was a Roman and Byzantine era city in the province of Africa Proconsularis. Its presumed present location is at the ruins of Beniata, located near Bizerte in modern Tunisia.

History

Beneventum was import enough in the Roman province of Africa proconsularis to become a suffragan of its capital Carthage's Metropolitan Archbishop, yet was to fade.

Titular see

Very little is known of the ancient bishopric and though suffragan of the Archdiocese of Carthage no bishops are known by name. The diocese ceased to function with the arrival of the Islamic armies in the 7th century but was nominally restored in 1933, Auxiliary Bishop of Conceptión, Chile