Titular diocese of Sicilibba

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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
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

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