Titular diocese of Sicilibba
Sicilibba is a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church .
It goes back to a submerged bishopric in the ancient city of the same name, which was in the Roman province of Africa proconsularis (today northern Tunisia , about 30 km southwest of Tunis ). The bishopric was assigned to the ecclesiastical province of Carthage .
Titular Bishops of Sicilibba | ||||
No. | Surname | Office | from | to |
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1 | Robert Louis Whelan SJ | Coadjutor Bishop of Fairbanks ( USA ) | December 6, 1967 | 15th November 1968 |
2 | Maurice Marie-Sainte | Auxiliary Bishop in Saint-Pierre et Fort-de-France ( Martinique ) | 19th December 1968 | 4th July 1972 |
3 | Arnaldo Ribeiro | Auxiliary Bishop in Belo Horizonte ( Brazil ) | November 6, 1975 | December 28, 1988 |
4th | Juozapas Matulaitis-Labukas | Apostolic Administrator of Kaišiadorys ( Lithuania ) | March 10, 1989 | December 24, 1991 |
5 | Ruggero Franceschini OFMCap | Vicar Apostolic of Anatolia ( Turkey ) | Jul 2, 1993 | October 11, 2004 |
6th | Joseph Konnath | Auxiliary Bishop in Trivandrum ( India ) | January 5, 2005 | January 25, 2010 |
7th | Christoph Hegge | Auxiliary Bishop in Münster ( Germany ) | May 31, 2010 |