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:''See [[St Kilda, Scotland]] for the island also referred to as Hilta''
'''Hilta''' was an ancient city and former bishopric in Roman Africa, in the north of modern [[Tunisia]]. It is now a [[Latin Catholic]] [[titular see]].
== History ==
Hilta was important enough in the [[Roman province]] of [[Africa Proconsularis]], in the papal sway, to become a [[suffragan]] bishopric of its capital [[Carthage (episcopal see)|Carthage]]'s Metropolitan Archbishop, but later faded, presumably under the 7th century advent of Islam.
It has had three historically documented bishops :
* Participants in the [[Council of Carthage (411)|Council of Carthage in 411]], included for Hilta the Catholic Hilarianus and the [[Donatist]] heretic Victor, whose schismatic party was firmly condemned.
* Pariator took part in the [[Council of Carthage (646)|council of Carthage in 646]] against [[monothelitism]].
=== Titular see ===
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as a Latin Catholic [[titular bishopric]] of Hilta (Latin) / '''Ilta''' (Curiate Italian) / Hilten(sis) (Latin adjective).
It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank :
* Norberto Forero y García (1951.07.07 – 1956.05.27) as [[Auxiliary Bishop]] of [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Nueva Pamplona|Diocese of Nueva Pamplona]] ([[Colombia]]) (1951.07.07 – 1956.05.27); later Bishop of [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Marta|Santa Marta]] (Colombia) (1956.05.27 – retired 1971.06.02), died 1981
* Napoléon-Alexandre Labrie, [[Eudists]] (C.I.M.) (1956.12.07 – resigned 1970.11.23) as emeritate, died 1973; previously Titular Bishop of [[Limata]] (1938.03.30 – 1945.12.22) as last [[Apostolic Vicar]] of [[Apostolic Vicar of Golfe Saint-Laurent|Golfe Saint-Laurent]] (Canada) (1938.03.30 – 1945.11.24), (see) promoted as first Bishop of [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Golfe Saint-Laurent|Golfe Saint-Laurent]] (now Diocese of Baie-Comeau) (1945.11.24 – 1956.12.07)
* Józef Kazimierz Kluz (1972.05.12 – death 1982.12.05) as Auxiliary Bishop of [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Gdańsk|Diocese of Gdańsk]] (Danzig, Poland) (1972.05.12 – 1982.12.05)
* Rafael Eleuterio Rey (1983.04.30 – 1991.12.18) as Auxiliary Bishop of [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mendoza|Archdiocese of Mendoza]] ([[Argentina]]) (1983.04.30 – 1991.12.18); later Bishop of [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Zárate-Campana|Zárate-Campana]] (Argentina) (1991.12.18 – retired 2006.02.03)
* Thomas Nguyễn Văn Trâm (1992.03.06 – 2005.11.22) as Auxiliary Bishop of [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Xuân Lộc|Xuân Lộc]] ([[Vietnam]]) (1992.03.06 – 2005.11.22); later first Bishop of daughter see [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Bà Rịa|Bà Rịa]] (Vietnam) (2005.11.22 – retired 2017.05.06)
* Jean-Abdo Arbach, [[Basilian Chouerite Order of Saint John the Baptist]] (B.C.) (2006.10.17 – 2006.11.11), as [[Apostolic Exarch]] of [[Argentina of the Greek-Melkites]] (2006.10.17 – 2012.06.23), as such next Titular Bishop of [[Palmyra of the Greek-Melkites]] (2006.11.11 – 2012.06.23), later Metropolitan Archbishop of [[Homs of the Greek-Melkites]] (Syria) (2012.06.23 – ...)
* Christophe Zoa (2006.11.30 – 2008.12.04) as Auxiliary Bishop of [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Yaoundé|Archdiocese of Yaoundé]] ([[Cameroon]]) (2006.11.30 – 2008.12.04); later Bishop of [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Sangmélima|Sangmélima]] (Cameroon) (2008.12.04 – ...)
* [[Gérald Cyprien Lacroix]], [[Secular Institute Pius X]] (I.S.P.X.) (2009.04.07 – 2011.02.22) as [[Auxiliary Bishop]] of [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec|Quebec]] (Canada) (2009.04.07 – 2011.02.22), later succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Quebec (2011.02.22 – ...), created [[Cardinal-Priest]] of [[S. Giuseppe all’Aurelio]] (2014.02.22 [2014.06.22] – ...)
* [[John Sherrington]] (2011.06.30 – ...), [[Auxiliary Bishop]] of [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Westminster|Westminster]] (England, UK) (2011.06.30 – ...).
== Sources and external links ==
* [http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t0926.htm GigaCatholic with titular incumbent biography links]
; Bibliography
* Pius Bonifacius Gams, ''Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae'', Leipzig 1931, p. 466
* Stefano Antonio Morcelli, ''Africa christiana'', Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 179
[[Category:Catholic titular sees in Africa]]