Hirina (Hirena) was a city and bishopric in southern

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, known only through ecclesiastical records, which became a Latin

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. Nothing is known of the city, the name of which may have been Hirina, Hiren or Iren., except that it was in the

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Ecclesiastical history

It was one of the many

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dioceses of the Metropolitan Archbishopric of

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(Sousse). Three bishops are known: * Tertullian, present at the conference of

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in 311 * Saturus, exiled in 484 by

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with many other bishops * Theodore, who in 641 signed the letter from the Council of Byzacium to Constantine, son of Heraclius, against

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Titular see

It was nominally restored as Latin

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of the lowest (episcopal) rank, Hirine (until 1924 also called Hirena) or Irina in Italian. It has had the following incumbents, ''with a single archiepiscopal exception :'' * Giuseppe Isidoro Persico (1726.03.20 – 1731.06.18) * Aleksandras Kazimieras Gorainis (Aleksander Kazimierz Horain) (1731.09.24 – 1774.07.24) * Wojciech Józef Radoszewski (1787.04.23 – 1796.06.06) * Joannes Augustus Paredis (1840.12.18 – 1853.03.04) * Raffaele Di Nonno,

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(C.SS.R.) (1883.08.09 – 1889) (later Archbishop) * James Charles McDonald (1890.06.13 – 1891.05.01) * Emmanuel Segrada,

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(P.I.M.E.) (1908.05.10 – 1936) * Thomas Aloysius Boland (1940.05.21 – 1947.06.21) (later Archbishop) * Emile-Joseph Socquet,

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(M. Afr.) (1948.01.08 – 1955.09.14) (later Archbishop) * Mario Di Lieto (1956.08.11 – 1957.11.21) *

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(1957.11.25 – 1970.09.01) (later Cardinal) * ''Titular Archbishop Ugo Camozzo'' (1970.09.22 – 1977.07.07) * Florian Kuntner (1977.09.30 – 1994.03.30) * Fernando María Bargalló (1994.04.27 – 1997.05.13) * Gilberto Fernández (1997.06.23 – 2011.09.30) * George Arthur Sheltz (2012.02.21 – 2021.12.21), Auxiliary Bishop of Galveston–Houston (Texas, USA) * Frank R. Schuster (2022.05.03 - ...), Auxiliary Bishop of

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References

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Roman towns and cities in Africa (Roman province) Catholic titular sees in Africa