The Diocese of Oea (Latin: Dioecesis Oëensis) is a suppressed and titular See of the Roman Catholic Church.

History

Oea, corresponding to the city of Tripoli in present-day Libya, is an ancient episcopal seat of the Roman province of Africa Nova, Tripolitania.

The diocese is still mentioned in the Notitiae Episcopatuum written by the Byzantine emperor Leo VI the Wise. (886-912)[1]

Bishops

Titular bishops

References

  1. ^ Hieroclis Synecdemus et notitiae graecae episcopatuum, accedunt Nili Doxapatrii notitia patriarchatuum et locorum nomina immutata, ex recognitione Gustavi Parthey, Berlin 1866, p. 83 (nº 798).
  2. ^ As well described in the Acta Sanctae Sedis, p. 626, Alessandro Grossi succeeds Filippo Mainetti on Tripoli di Fenicia; however, when these, at the consitory of December 30, 1889, were transferred to the titular archbishopric of Nicopolis, the Acta Sanctae Sedis indicated it as episcopum Oensem (cfr. ASS 22 (1889-90), p. 334).

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