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Dura was an Ancient city and bishopric in Roman North Africa, which remains a Latin Catholic
titular see A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular metropolitan" (highest rank), "titular archbish ...
.


History

Dura was among the many cities in the
Roman province The Roman provinces (Latin: ''provincia'', pl. ''provinciae'') were the administrative regions of Ancient Rome outside Roman Italy that were controlled by the Romans under the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire. Each province was rule ...
of
Byzacena Byzacena (or Byzacium) ( grc, Βυζάκιον, ''Byzakion'') was a Late Roman province in the central part of Roman North Africa, which is now roughly Tunisia, split off from Africa Proconsularis. History At the end of the 3rd century AD, the ...
that became a
suffragan diocese A suffragan diocese is one of the dioceses other than the metropolitan archdiocese that constitute an ecclesiastical province. It exists in some Christian denominations, in particular the Catholic Church, the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria ...
. Its precise Roman location, in present-day
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, remains unknown. Its only historically documented bishop, Quodvultdeus, was among the Catholic bishops attending the Council of Carthage called in 484 by king
Huneric Huneric, Hunneric or Honeric (died December 23, 484) was King of the (North African) Vandal Kingdom (477–484) and the oldest son of Gaiseric. He abandoned the imperial politics of his father and concentrated mainly on internal affairs. He was m ...
of the Vandal Kingdom on the heresy
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, after which and many of his party were exiled, unlike their schismatic counterparts (none of which is named for Dura).


Titular see

The ancient city has been used as a titular see in the 17th and 19th centuries and regularly from 1933 to the present as the Latin
titular bishopric A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular metropolitan" (highest rank), "titular archbish ...
of Dura (Latin = Curiate Italian) / Duren(sis) (Latin adjective).''
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'' 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 {{ISBN, 978-88-209-9070-1). It has been held as a titular see by the following bishops: * Franciscus Antonius von und zu Losenstein (1690.11.27 – death 1692.06.17) as
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of
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(Olmütz,
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, now a Czech Metropolitan) (1690.11.27 – 1692.06.17) * Patriarch Francisco de São Luiz Saraiva,
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(O.S.B.) (1824.04.30 – 1843.04.03), in between prelatures; previously
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of
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(
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) (1821.04.19 – 1822.04.16), succeeding as Bishop of Coimbra (1822.04.16 – 1824.04.30); later
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(Lisbon, Portugal) (
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1843.04.03 – death 1845.05.07), created
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with no Title assigned (1843.06.19 – 1845.05.07) * René-Fernand-Bernardin Collin,
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(O.F.M.) (1949.05.26 – 1958.12.21), first as Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of
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(
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) (1949.05.26 – 1952.01.18), then succeeding as Apostolic Vicar of Port-Said (1952.01.18 – 1958.12.21); later Bishop of
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(France) (1958.12.21 – retired 1980), died 1985 *
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,
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(E.B.C.- (1962.07.02 – death 1990.03.31) as emeritate; previously
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of
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(1947.08.11 – 1957.10.01) as Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of
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(1947.08.11 – 1953.06.29) and (see) promoted as Coadjutor Bishop of
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(Sweden) (1953.06.29 – 1957.10.01); later succeeded as Bishop of Stockholm (1957.10.01 – 1962.07.02) *
Rafal Wladyslaw Kiernicki Rafal Wladyslaw Kiernicki ( uk, Рафал Владислав Керницький; pl, Rafał Władysław Kiernicki; 3 May 1912 – 23 November 1995) was a Roman Catholic prelate from Ukraine as the Titular Bishop of Dura and Auxiliary bishop o ...
,
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(O.F.M. Conv.) (1991.01.16 – death 1995.11.23) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Lviv (
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) (1991.01.16 – 1995.11.23) * Aloysius Paul D'Souza (born India) (1996.01.11 – 1996.11.08) as Auxiliary Bishop of
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(India) (1996.01.11 – 1996.11.08); next succeeded as Bishop of Mangalore (1996.11.08 – ) * Anthony Giroux Meagher (later Archbishop) (1997.04.30 – 2002.04.27) * Rafael Francisco Martínez Sáinz (2002.06.19 – 2016.11.06) * (2016.12.20 – ): Allwyn D’Silva, Auxiliary Bishop of Bombay (India)


See also

*
List of Catholic dioceses in Tunisia The Catholic Church in Tunisia is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. Dioceses The Catholic church in Tunisia presently comprises only a single Latin archbishopric, in the national capital T ...


References


Sources and external links


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Catholic titular sees in Africa Former Roman Catholic dioceses in Africa Suppressed Roman Catholic dioceses