Vegesela in Byzacena was a Roman Era town tentatively identified with ruins at Henchir-Recba in modern Tunisia.^[1] The town was in the Roman province of Byzacena.

The ancient town was also the seat of an ancient Christian Bishopric, which survives today as a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.^[2] René Coba Galarza is the current Bishop.^[3][4] The diocese effectively ceased to function with the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb. Today the diocese of Vegesela in Byzacena (Latin: Dioecesis Vegeselitana in Byzacena) is a suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.^[5][6]

There are only six documented bishops of Vegesela in Byzacena.

• Privato attended the Carthaginian council called by Grato in 349.
• The Catholic Privaziano intervened at the Carthage conference of 411, which saw together the Catholic and Donatist bishops of Roman Africa; on that occasion the headquarters did not have a Donatist bishop.
• Alfredo Torres Romero (December 30, 1967 - July 26, 1980 appointed Bishop of Toluca)
• Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino (3 July 1982 - 16 March 1990 appointed archbishop of Valencia en Venezuela)
• Segundo René Coba Galarza (June 7, 2006 - June 18, 2014)
• Franz Josef Gebert, from 31 May 2017auxiliary bishop of Trier

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