Parthenia (place)
Partenia or Parthenia is a Roman Catholic titular (Latin Dioecesis Partheniensis ).
It goes back to a diocese under gone at a same place in the Roman province of Mauretania Sitifensis which existed until the arrival of the Vandals in the 5th century. The last bishop, Rogatus, 484 was banished. The city was abandoned in the early Middle Ages. The bishop's seat was in the Algerian plateau in today's Algerian Province Sétif Sétif south of the city.
The diocese was created in 1964 as titular " in partibus infidelium " (meaning " the land of the infidels" ) is restored.
The diocese came to unexpected fame through the French Bishop Jacques Gaillot, who on 13 January 1995, allegedly replaced under pressure from the French government, in particular the Interior Minister Charles Pasqua, by Pope John Paul II as Bishop of Evreux and on the titular see of Partenia was added. Bishop Gaillot was the defunct diocese revive as " diocese without borders " on the Internet. With the help of modern communication means to communicate from his monastic cell in Paris over the Internet with people around the world. The created in several languages partenia.org site, a focal point for the virtual diocese, is visited monthly by up to 65,000 people. There are also regular letters and diary entries of the bishop are published on social issues.