Tunnuna was an ancient city and diocese in
Roman Africa
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. It is now a
Latin Catholic
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titular see
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.
History
Tunnuna was located in modern
Tunisia
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. It was important enough in
Roman
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-era
province
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of
Africa Proconsularis
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to become one of the many
suffragan
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s of the capital
Carthage
Carthage was the capital city of Ancient Carthage, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia. Carthage was one of the most important trading hubs of the Ancient Mediterranean and one of the most affluent cities of the classi ...
's Metropolitan Archbishopric, but faded like most.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as
Titular bishopric
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of Tunnuna (Latin and Curiate Italian) / Tunnunen(sis) (Latin adjective).
It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank :
* George John Rehring (1967.02.25 – resigned 1970.12.31) as emeritate, formerly
Titular Bishop
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of
Lunda (1937.08.06 – 1950.07.16) as
Auxiliary Bishop of
Archdiocese of Cincinnati
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(USA) (1937.08.06 – 1950.07.16), Bishop of
Toledo (USA) (1950.07.16 – retired 1967.02.25); died 1976
* Urbano José Allgayer (1974.02.05 – 1982.02.04) as Auxiliary Bishop of
Archdiocese of Porto Alegre (
Brazil
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) (1974.02.05 – 1982.02.04), next Bishop of
Passo Fundo
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(Brazil) (1982.02.04 – retired 1999.05.19)
* Osvaldo Giuntini (1982.06.25 – 1987.04.30) as Auxiliary Bishop of
Diocese of Marília (Brazil) (1982.06.25 – 1987.04.30), next Coadjutor Bishop of Marília (1987.04.30 – 1992.12.09), succeeding as Bishop of Marília (1992.12.09 – retired 2013.05.08)
* Narbal da Costa Stencel (1987.10.30 – death 2003.01.31) as Auxiliary Bishop of
Archdiocese of (São Sebastião do) Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) (1987.10.30 – 2002.03.13)
* Edney Gouvêa Mattoso (2005.01.12 – 2010.01.20) as Auxiliary Bishop of
Archdiocese of (São Sebastião do) Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) (2005.01.12 – 2010.01.20), next Bishop of
Nova Friburgo
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(Brazil) (2010.01.20 – ...)
* Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Liesen (2010.07.15 – 2011.11.26) as Auxiliary Bishop of
Diocese of ’s-Hertogenbosch
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(
Netherlands
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) (2010.07.15 – 2011.11.26), next Bishop of
Breda
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(Netherlands) (2011.11.26 – ...), also Vice-President of Episcopal Conference of the Netherlands (2016.06.14 – ...)
* Stephen Robson (2012.05.08 – 2013.12.11) as Auxiliary Bishop of
Archdiocese of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh
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(
Scotland
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, UK) (2012.05.08 – 2013.12.11), next Bishop of
Dunkeld
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(Scotland) (2013.12.11 – ...)
*
Bishop-elect
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Matthäus Karrer (2017.03.02 – ...), as Auxiliary Bishop of
Diocese of Rottenburg–Stuttgart (southern
Germany
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) (2017.03.02 – ...).
See also
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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 ...
*
Victor of Tunnuna Victor of Tunnuna (Latin ''Victor Tunnunensis'') (died 570) was Bishop of the North African town of Tunnuna and a chronicler from Late antiquity. He was also considered a martyr by Isidore of Seville.
What little information we have on his life ...
References
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Sources and external links
GCatholic - data for all sections
Catholic titular sees in Africa
Former Roman Catholic dioceses in Africa
Roman Catholic titular bishops of Tunnuna