Gisipa
{{short description|Titular see in Tunisia}}
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The Diocese of Gisipa ({{langx|la|Rite Gisipensis|link=no}}) is a home suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Carthage.Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 466.Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), pp. 173–174.
Location
The bishopric of Gisipa, was centered on a Roman town called Gisipam, the location of which is now lost to history,[http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t0877.htm Titular Episcopal See of Gisipa] at GCatholic.org. although being in Africa Proconsularis it is certain that it was in what is modern north Tunisia.
History
The sources mention four bishops.
- The Catholic bishop, Gennaro attended the Council of Carthage (411)
- Carissimo took part in the Synod of Carthage in 484 called by the Vandal king Huneric, after which Carissimo was exiled
- Redento attended the Council of Carthage (525)
- Melloso signed the anti-monothelitism canon of 646.
Today Gisipa survives as titular bishop,David Cheney, [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d2g44.html Gisipa] in catholic-hierarchy.org. the current bishop is Vitorino José Pereira Soares, Auxiliary Bishop of Porto.[http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t0877.htm Titular Episcopal See of Gisipa] at GCatholic.org.Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 224, Number 18,559