Titular diocese Tipasa in Numidia

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Tipasa in Numidia ( Italian : Tipasa di Numidia ) is a titular diocese of the Roman Catholic Church .

The city, located in North Africa, was an old Roman bishopric that went down in the 7th century with the Islamic expansion . It was located in the Roman province of Numidia south of the bishopric of St. Augustine , Hippo Regius .

Titular Bishops of Tipasa in Numidia
No. Surname Office from to
1 Michael James Gallagher Coadjutor Bishop of Grand Rapids ( USA ) July 5, 1915 December 26, 1916
2 Henry Gray Graham Auxiliary Bishop in Saint Andrews and Edinburgh ( Great Britain ) August 30, 1917 5th December 1959
3 Victor Tielbeek SSCC Prelate of Formosa ( Brazil ) 4th February 1961 May 26, 1978
4th Antonio Realubin Tobias Auxiliary Bishop in Zamboanga ( Philippines ) 3rd November 1982 September 14, 1984
5 Sérgio Arthur Braschi Auxiliary Bishop in Curitiba (Brazil) February 18, 1998 July 16, 2003
6th José Luiz Ferreira Salles CSsR Auxiliary Bishop in Fortaleza (Brazil) February 1, 2006 February 15, 2012
7th Christian Riesbeck CC Auxiliary Bishop in Ottawa, Canada January 7, 2014 15th October 2019

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