Tisili is a former city and diocese of in Roman Africa; it is now a Catholic titular see in modern Tunisia, with its precise location not being defined.

History

Tisili was important enough in the Roman province of Africa proconsularis to become a suffragan bishopric of its capital Carthage's Metropolitan Archbishopric. It was however to fade with the city.

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored as a titular bishopric in 1933.

It has had the following incumbents, all of the lowest (episcopal) class :

See also

  • Tišīlī (تشيلي), Arabic name for Chile

References

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