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Bononia (titular see)

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Bononia, once the residential episcopal see of the city of that name, is a titular see of the Catholic Church.[1]

History

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The city of Bononia lay within the ancient Roman province of Dacia Ripensis. Under its present name of Vidin, it is part of Bulgaria.[2]

It was important enough to become a suffragan bishopric of the Metropolitan Archbishop of the provincial capital Raziaria. The Latin adjective by which the diocese is referred to is Bononiensis.

Titular see

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The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin Catholic titular bishopric of Bononia (Latin = Curiate Italian) / Bononien(sis) (Latin adjective).

It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank :

References

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  1. ^ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 852
  2. ^ Catholic Hierarchy page[self-published source]
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Bibliography - ecclesiastical history
  • lemma 'Bononia', in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. IX, Paris 1937, coll. 1089-1090