Fronta

The Diocese of Fronta (Latin: Dioecesis Frontensis) is a suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.[1][2][3][4]

During the Roman Empire the Diocese of Fronta, was of the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis. The location of the seat of the diocese remains unknown but has been tentatively identified with Fortassa, Uzès-le-Duc in modern Algeria.[5] The only known bishop of this diocese from antiquity is Donato, who took part in the synod assembled in Carthage in 484 by the Vandal King Huneric, after which the bishop was exiled.

Today Fronta survives as a titular bishopric[6] and the current bishop is Josef Grünwald, of Augsburg.[7]

References
  1. Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), "Sedi titolari", pp. 819-1013
  2. Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 465.
  3. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p.162
  4. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 162.
  5. Fronta at www.gcatholic.org
  6. David M. Cheney, Fronta at www.catholic-hierarchy.org
  7. Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 143, Number 12,590.
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