Pertusa (Africa)
- For its modern Aragonese namesake, see Pertusa (Spain)
Pertusa was a city and diocese, now a titular bishopric, in North Africa.
History
Pertusa was an Ancient city on the site of modern El-Haraïria, in Tunisia.
It was in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis.
It was important enough to become a bishopric, suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Carthage.
Titular see
It was nominally revived in 1933 as a Latin titular see of the lowest (episcopal) in 1933, and has almost constantly been awarded. Its incumbents were mostly secular priests :
- Giorgio Giuseppe Haezaert, Spiritans (C.S.Sp.) (1935.06.18 – 1957.09.29), as first Apostolic Vicar of Northern Katanga (in then Belgian Congo)
- Leonard Philip Cowley (1957.11.28 – 1973.08.18)
- George Kinzie Fitzsimons (1975.05.20 – 1984.03.28)
- Kazimierz Górny (1984.10.26 – 1992.03.25)
- Roberto Rodríguez (1992.11.12 – 1998.06.23)
- Liborius Ndumbukuti Nashenda, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (O.M.I.) (1998.11.05 – 2004.09.21), as Auxiliary Bishop of Windhoek (capital of Namibia) (1998.11.05 – 2004.09.21), next Metropolitan Archbishop of Windhoek (2004.09.21 – ...) and President of Namibian Catholic Bishop’s Conference (September 2007 – ...)
- Philippe Jean-Charles Jourdan, (2005.04.01 – ...), Apostolic Administrator of Estonia
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