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Menefessi is a former ancient city and bishopric in Tunisia. It is currently a Latin Catholic titular see.
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Menefessi was located near modern Henchir-Djemmiah. In Roman times, it belonged to the North African Roman province of Byzacena. The city was important enough to become a suffragan bishopric, but faded.
The diocese of Menefessi is a suppressed seat of the Roman Catholic Church.[1]
There are only two documented bishops of Menefessi.[2]
Today Menefessi survives as a titular bishop's seat; the current titular bishop is José Trinidad González Rodríguez, former auxiliary bishop of Guadalajara. The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as a Latin Catholic titular bishopric.
It has had the following incumbents, both of the lowest (episcopal) and intermediary (archiepiscopal) ranks :
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