The Diocese of Bennefa () is a home suppressed and titular see of the Catholic Church. Bennefa, identifiable with Oglet-Khefifa in modern Tunisia, Titular Episcopal See of Bennefa at GCatholic.org. is an ancient civitas of the Roman province of Byzacena.Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 464 and a seat of an ancient Christian episcopal see.Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I (Brescia, 1816), pp. 100–101. The diocese was mentioned by Augustine of Hippo. Bennefa sul sito dell'Associazione storico-culturale di Sant'Agostino.
There are four known bishops of this diocese. Guntasio Cabarsussi participated in the council, held in 393 by Maximianus, a dissident sect of the Donatists, and they signed the acts of the conference.Patrologia Latina, XXXVI, coll. 376 e 381. At the Council of Carthage in 411, Catholic Bishop Emiliano represented the city. The Donatist cause was not represented due to the death of the bishop Maximian on the eve of the conference.Patrologia Latina, XI, coll. 1304 e 1337. Among the Catholic bishops summoned to Carthage in 484 by the Vandal king Huneric was Ortolano,Patrologia Latina, t. LVIII, coll. 271 e 315. who then was exiled, as recalled by the Roman martyrology on the date of 28 November.
Today Bennefa survives as titular bishopricAuguste Audollent, v. Benefensis in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. VII, 1934, col. 1237 and the current bishop is Héctor Mario Pérez Villarreal, of Monterrey.David Cheney, Diocesi di Bennefa, su Catholic-Hierarchy.org
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