Precausa
Precausa (Latin: Præcausa) was an ancient civitas of the Roman province of Byzacena in North Africa. Its exact location remains unknown[1] but it was in the present Sahel region of Tunisia.
Precausa was also the seat of an ancient diocese.[2][3] Only one bishop of Precause is known from antiquity, Adeodato, who attended the Synod of Carthage (484) called by the Vandal king Huneric, after which Adeodato was exiled.
Today Præcausa survives as titular bishop. It was erected as a titular see in 1933. The bishopric remains a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church today and the current bishop is Józef Wysocki, auxiliary bishop emeritus of Elbląg, Poland.[4][5] Cardinal Rosalio José Castillo Lara was bishop of Præcausa for a time.[6]
References
- ^ Titular Episcopal See of Præcausa at GCatholic.org.
- ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 467.
- ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 256
- ^ Praecausa at catholic-hierarchy.org
- ^ Titular Episcopal See of Præcausa at GCatholic.org.
- ^ Harris M. Lentz III, Popes and Cardinals of the 20th Century: A Biographical Dictionary (McFarland, 2001) p39.