Beneventum (Africa)
- See Beneventum for namesakes
Beneventum is a former Ancient city and bishopric in Roman North Africa and is at present a Latin Catholic titular see.
Beneventum was a Roman and Byzantine era city in the province of Africa Proconsularis.[1] Its presumed present location is at the ruins of Beniata, located near Bizerte in modern Tunisia.
History
Beneventum was import enough in the Roman province of Africa proconsularis to become a suffragan of its capital Carthage's Metropolitan Archbishop, yet was to fade.
Titular see
Very little is known of the ancient Bishopric and though suffragan of the Archdiocese of Carthage no Bishops are known by name. The diocese ceased to function with the arrival of the Islamic armies in the 7th century but was nominally restored in 1933 (Curiate Italian title Benevento. The city should not be confused with the Italian city of the same name.
It has following incumbents, both of the lowest (episcopal) and intermediary (archiepiscopal) ranks :
- Titular Bishop Carlos Oviedo Cavada, Mercedarians (O. de M.) (1964.03.21 – 1974.03.25) as Auxiliary Bishop of Concepción (Chile) (1964.03.21 – 1974.03.25); later Apostolic Administrator of Calama (Chile) (1974 – 1976), Metropolitan Archbishop of Antofagasta (Chile) (1974.03.25 – 1990.03.30), Metropolitan Archbishop of Santiago (Chile) (1990.03.30 – 1998.02.16), created Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria della Scala as pro hac vice Title (1994.11.26 – 1998.12.07), President of Episcopal Conference of Chile (1995 – 1998), Apostolic Administrator of above Santiago de Chile (1998.02.16 – 1998.04.24)
- Titular Bishop Tadeusz Gocłowski, Lazarists (C.M.) (1983.03.22 – 1984.12.31) (later Archbishop)
- Titular Archbishop Manuel Monteiro de Castro (1985.02.16 – 2012.02.18) as Apostolic Pro-Nuncio (papal diplomatic envoy) to Bahamas (1985.02.16 – 1990.08.21), Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Barbados (1985.02.16 – 1990.08.21), Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Belize (1985.02.16 – 1990.08.21), Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Dominica (1985.02.16 – 1990.08.21), Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Jamaica (1985.02.16 – 1990.08.21), Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Grenada (1985.02.16 – 1990.08.21), Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Saint Lucia (1985.02.16 – 1990.08.21), Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Trinidad and Tobago (1985.02.16 – 1990.08.21), Apostolic Delegate to 'Antilles' (comprising Anguilla, Aruba, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Curaçao, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Montserrat, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin, Sint Maarten, Turks and Caicos Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands) (1985.02.16 – 1990.08.21), Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Antigua and Barbuda (1987.04.25 – 1990.08.21), Apostolic Nuncio (papal ambassador) to Honduras (1990.08.21 – 1991.04.12), Apostolic Nuncio to El Salvador (1990.08.21 – 1998.02.02), Apostolic Nuncio to Namibia (1998.02.02 – 2000.03.01), Apostolic Nuncio to South Africa (1998.02.02 – 2000.03.01), Apostolic Nuncio to Swaziland (1998.02.02 – 2000.03.01), Apostolic Nuncio to Lesotho (1998.03.07 – 2000.03.01), Apostolic Nuncio to Andorra (2000.03.01 – 2009.07.03), Apostolic Nuncio to Spain (2000.03.01 – 2009.07.03), Vatican Permanent Observer to World Tourism Organization (WTO) (2007.12.07 – 2009.07.03), Secretary of Congregation for Bishops (2009.07.03 – 2012.01.05), Secretary of College of Cardinals (2009.10.21 – 2012.01.05), Major Penitentiary of Apostolic Penitentiary (2012.01.05 – 2013.09.21), created Cardinal-Deacon of S. Domenico di Guzmán (2012.02.18 [2012.04.22] – ...)
- Titular Archbishop Konrad Krajewski (2013.08.03 – ...), Almoner of His Holiness of Office of Papal Charities