Titular diocese of Tacapae

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Tacapae ( Italian : Tacape ) is a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church .

It goes back to a lost bishopric of the ancient city of Tacapae, today Gabès , in North Africa (Roman province Africa proconsularis or later Tripolitana ) on the coast of today's Tunisia .

Titular Bishops of Tacapae
No. Surname Office from to
1 Robert Brindle Bishop Emeritus of Nottingham ( United Kingdom ) June 1, 1915 June 27, 1916
2 Jan Nepomuk Sedlák Auxiliary Bishop in Prague ( Austria-Hungary / Czechoslovakia ) July 7, 1917 October 10, 1930
3 Juan Bautista Gorordo Bishop emeritus of Cebu ( USA ) June 19, 1931 December 20, 1934
4th Louis Parisot SMA Vicar Apostolic of Dahomey ( French West Africa ) March 11, 1935 September 14, 1955
5 Maurice Michael Otunga Auxiliary Bishop in Kisumu ( Kenya ) 17th November 1956 May 21, 1960
6th Anthony de Saram Auxiliary Bishop in Colombo in Ceylon ( Ceylon ) December 27, 1962 March 22, 1965
7th Raúl Arsenio Casado Auxiliary Bishop in Salta ( Argentina ) May 14, 1975 July 7, 1983
8th Braulio Sáez Garcia OCD Auxiliary Bishop in Oruro ( Bolivia ) February 18, 1987 November 7, 1991
9 Charles Martin Wamika Auxiliary Bishop in Tororo ( Uganda ) October 18, 1993 March 2, 2010
10 Dieter Geerlings Auxiliary Bishop in Münster ( Germany ) May 31, 2010

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