Titular diocese of Gibba
Gibba is a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church .
The diocese of Gibba , which corresponds to the small ruins of Henchir-Dibba north of Tebessa , more precisely 8 km east-southeast of Ksar-Galaba in Algeria , was located in Numidia , a historical landscape in North Africa .
| Titular Bishops of Gibba | ||||
| No. | Surname | Office | from | to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | André-Jean-François Defebvre CM | Vicar Apostolic of Ningbo ( Republic of China ) | December 23, 1926 | April 11, 1946 |
| 2 | Hilaire Marie Vermeiren MSC | Apostolic Vicar of Coquilhatville ( DRC ) | April 10, 1947 | November 10, 1959 |
| 3 | Alphonse Verwimp SJ | Bishop emeritus of Kisantu (Democratic Republic of the Congo) | October 27, 1960 | October 11, 1964 |
| 4th | Mário de Miranda Vilas-Boas | Archbishop Emeritus of Paraíba ( Brazil ) | May 18, 1965 | February 23, 1968 |
| 5 | Emile-Elie Verhille CSSp | Bishop emeritus of Fort-Rousset (Congo) | March 2nd, 1968 | 2nd December 1977 |
| 6th | James Hector MacDonald CSC | Auxiliary Bishop in Hamilton ( Canada ) | February 9, 1978 | August 12, 1982 |
| 7th | Serafín Luis Alberto Cartagena Ocaña OFM | Vicar Apostolic of Zamora in Ecuador | September 10, 1982 | |
See also
Remarks
- ↑ Recueil des notices et mémoires de la Société archéologique, historique, et géographique du département de Constantine 45-46 (1912), p. 28.
- ↑ Stéphane Gsell : Musée de Tébessa , E. Leroux, Paris 1902, p. 63.
- ^ Gibba , gcatholic.org