Zuri was a city and bishopric in
Roman North Africa
Africa Proconsularis was a Roman province on the northern African coast that was established in 146 BC following the defeat of Carthage in the Third Punic War. It roughly comprised the territory of present-day Tunisia, the northeast of Algeria, ...
, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
History
Zuri, possibly identical with present Aïn-Djour, near
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 ...
in
Tunisia
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, was among the many cities of sufficient important in the
Roman province
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of
Africa Proconsularis
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, to become 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 ...
of its Metropolitan 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 archbishopric, in the papal sway, yet faded completely, plausibly at the
seventh century advent of Islam.
Its only historically recorded bishop, Paulinus, participated as one of the Catholic bishops of Roman Africa in the
Council of Carthage in 411, with the schismatic
Donatist
Donatism was a Christian sect leading to a schism in the Church, in the region of the Church of Carthage, from the fourth to the sixth centuries. Donatists argued that Christian clergy must be faultless for their ministry to be effective and t ...
bishops, which condemned their heresy.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored in 1928 as 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 Zuri (Latin = Curiate Italian) / Zuritan(us) (Latin adjective).
It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting Episcopal (lowest)rank ''with an archiepiscopal exception :
* Franz Joseph Fischer (1929.12.19 – death 1958.07.24) as Auxiliary Bishop of
Rottenburg (Germany) (1929.12.19 – 1958.07.24)
* Auguste-Callixte-Jean Bonnabel (1961.02.13 – 1967.11.07) as emeritate, previously Bishop of
Gap (France) (1932.08.16 – 1961.02.13)
* ''Titular Archbishop: Jean Jadot (1968.02.23 – 2009.01.21) (Belgian) as papal diplomat :
Apostolic Delegate
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to Thailand (1968.02.23 – 1969.08.28), Apostolic Delegate to Laos, Malaysia and Singapore (1968.02.23 – 1971.05.15),
Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Thailand (1969.08.28 – 1971.05.15), Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Cameroon (1971.05.15 – 1973.05.23), Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Gabon (1971.05.15 – 1973.05.23), Apostolic Delegate to Equatorial Guinea (1971.05.15 – 1973.05.23), Apostolic Delegate to United States of America (1973.05.23 – 1980.06.27),
Permanent Observer
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(multilateral ambassador) to
Organization of American States
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(OAS) (1978 – 1980.06.27), Pro-President of
Secretariat for Non-Christians (1980.06.27 – retired 1984.04.08), died 2009
* Father Gerhard Maria Wagner (2009.01.31 – death? 2009.03.02) as Auxiliary Bishop of
Diocese of Linz
The Diocese of Linz ( la, Dioecesis Linciensis) is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Vienna, Austria.
History
Early history
In the early Middle Ages the greater part of the territory of the present Diocese of Linz was subject to the bishops of ...
(2009.01.31 – 2009.03.02)
* Guerino Di Tora (2009.06.01 – ...) (Italian) as Auxiliary Bishop of the
Vicariate of Rome
it, Vicario Generale di Sua Santità
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(Roma, Italy) (2009.06.01 – ...).
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
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Catholic titular sees in Africa
Former Roman Catholic dioceses in Africa
Suppressed Roman Catholic dioceses