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Cilibia, Africa
Cilibia was an Ancient city and bishopric in Roman North Africa, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see. HistoryCilibia, probably at the site of Henchir-Kelbia in present Tunisia, was among the many cities in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis that were important enough to become a suffragan diocese of the Metropolitan of Carthage, in the papal sway. Three of its bishops are historically documented, including a schismatic:
Titular seeThe diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin titular bishopric of Cilibia (Latin = Curiate Italian) / Cilibien(sis) (Latin adjective). It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting episcopal (lowest) rank:
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