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Hilta

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See St Kilda, Scotland for the island also referred to as 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

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Hilta was important enough in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis, in the papal sway, to become a suffragan bishopric of its capital Carthage's Metropolitan Archbishop, but later faded, presumably under the 7th century advent of Islam.

It has had three historically documented bishops :

Titular see

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The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as a Latin Catholic titular bishopric of Hilta (Latin) / Ilta (Curiate Italian) / Hilten(sis) (Latin adjective).

It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank :

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Bibliography
  • Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 466
  • Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 179