Furnos was the name of two towns and bishoprics in the Roman province of Proconsular Africa (in present-day Tunisia). They are referred to as Furnos Maior and Furnos Minor, as now as separate Latin Catholic titular sees. Figs Mosaic at Furnos Minus 2

Locations

* The ruins of Furnos Minor are at

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(Ancient bishopric Thuburbo Minus) in modern Tunisia, North Africa * Furnos Maior may have been at what is now Aïn-Fournou or Aïn-Fourna, more distant from Carthage.

History

Each was important enough to become a

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bishopric of the African provincial capital's Metropolitan Archbishop of Carthage. The towns and the bishoprics disappeared after the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb, but their dioceses have been revived as titular sees.''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ), "Sedi titolari", p. 897 There are records of early bishops of one or other of the two sees. Third-century Geminius died shortly before Saint Cyprian; a Donatist Florentinus attended a conference in 411; and a Simeon was at the Council of Carthage (525). Simeon belonged to Furnos Maior, but it is uncertain of which town the other two were bishops.Siméon Vailhé, "Furni" in ''Catholic Encyclopedia'' (New York 1909)
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was martyred by being burned alive at the gate of Urusi known as the ''Porta Fornitana'', the 'Furnos Gate'.John Moorhead (translator), ''History of the Vandal Persecution''
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Titular see of Furnos Maior

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) (26 April 1932 – 14 August 1937) * Marcel-Auguste-Marie Grandin,

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Titular see of Furnos Minor

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