Bocconia was an ancient city and formerbishopric inRoman North Africa, which only remains aLatin Catholictitular see.

Bocconia was among the cities of sufficient importance to become asuffragan diocese in theRoman province ofNumidia, in the papal sway, but faded so completely, probably at the7th century advent of Islam, than even its precise location in presentAlgeria is unclear.

Its only historically documented bishops were :

• Donatus, partaking asDonatist schismatic bishop (without Catholic counterpart) at theCouncil of Carthage called in 411, precisely on that heresy.
• Vitalianus, Catholic bishop at theCouncil of Carthage called in 484 by kingHuneric of theVandal Kingdom, presumably exiled afterward.

The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latintitular bishopric of Bocconia (Latin = Curiate Italian) / Bocconien(sis) (Latin).

It has had the followingincumbents, of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank :

• Thomas F. Quinlan (구 토마),Columban Missionaries (S.S.C.M.E.) (1965.11.16 – death 1970.12.31) as emeriate^{[check spelling]}; previously first and onlyApostolic Prefect ofShunsen (South Korea) (1940–1943 and 1948.11.12 – 1950.07.16), (see) restyled first and onlyApostolic Prefect ofShunsen (South Korea) (1950.07.16 – 1955.09.20), (see) promoted first and onlyApostolic Vicar ofChuncheon 춘천 (1955.09.20 – 1962.03.10), President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Korea (1959–1964), (see) promoted first Bishop ofChuncheon 춘천 (1962.03.10 – 1965.11.16)
• Simon Ignatius Pimenta (1971.06.05 – 1977.02.26) asAuxiliary Bishop ofArchdiocese of Bombay (India) (1971.06.05 – 1977.02.26); laterCoadjutor Archbishop ofBombay (1977.02.26 – 1978.09.11),Metropolitan Archbishop of Bombay (1978.09.11 – retired 1996.11.08), President ofCatholic Bishops' Conference of India (1982–1988 and 1993–1997), createdCardinal-Priest ofS. Maria «Regina Mundi» a Torre Spaccata (1988.06.28 – death 2013.07.19)
• Ernest Mesmin Lucien Cabo (1983.07.02 – 1984.07.02) asAuxiliary Bishop ofDiocese of Basse-Terre (Guadeloupe, French Antilles) (1983.07.02 – 1984.07.02); next succeeded asBishop of Basse-Terre (1984.07.02 – 2008.05.15)
• Gregory Taik Maung (1984.11.08 – ...), as Auxiliary Bishop ofDiocese of Pyay (Burma =Myanmar) (1984.11.08 – retired 2010.07.16) andApostolic Administrator sede plena of Pyay (1991 – 2010.07.16), next asemeritate.

• List of Catholic dioceses in Algeria

• GCatholic

Bibliography

• Pius Bonifacius Gams,Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 464
• Stefano Antonio Morcelli,Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 104
• Auguste Audollent, lemma 'Bocconiensis' inDictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. IX, 1937, col. 311

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