Buleliana was a civitas (town) and bishopric in Roman North Africa and remains a Latin Catholic titular see.

History

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The exact location of the town is not known but it was in the Sahel region of northern Tunisia.

Buleliana was among the municipalities of sufficient importance in the Roman province of Africa proconsularis and latter Byzacena to become a suffragan diocese in the papal sway. The town remained the seat of a Christian bishopric through the Roman, Vandal and Byzantine eras [1] but faded like most after the 7th century advent of Islam.

While Mesnage assigns three bishops to the see, other authors dispute two assignations:

Titular see

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The diocese was nominally restored in 1989 as titular bishopric of Buleliana (Latin = Curiate Italian) / Bulelianen(sis) (Latin adjective) as a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.

It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank:[2]

See also

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References

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Bibliography
  • Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 464
  • J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, Paris 1912, p. 185
  • Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 107