Dura, Africa

Africa Proconsularis

Dura was an Ancient city and bishopric in Roman North Africa, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.

History

Dura was among the many cities in the Roman province of Byzacena that were important enough to become a suffragan diocese, but destined to fade so completely, that even its precise location, in present Tunisia, remains unknown.

Its only historically documented bishop, Quodvultdeus, was among the Catholic bishops attending the Council of Carthage called in 484 by king Huneric of the Vandal Kingdom on the heresy Donatism, after which and many of his party were exiled, unlike their schismatic counterparts (none of which is named for Dura).

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored (in the 17th century and again?) in 1933 as Latin titular bishopric of Dura (Latin = Curiate Italian) / Duren(sis) (Latin adjective).[1]

It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting episcopal (lowest) rank:

  • Franciscus Antonius von und zu Losenstein (1690.11.27 – death 1692.06.17) as Coadjutor Bishop of Olomouc (Olmütz, Moravia, now a Czech Metropolitan) (1690.11.27 – 1692.06.17)
  • Patriarch Francisco de São Luiz Saraiva, Benedictine Congregation of Portugal and Brazil (O.S.B.) (1824.04.30 – 1843.04.03), in between prelatures; previously Coadjutor Bishop of Coimbra (Portugal) (1821.04.19 – 1822.04.16), succeeding as Bishop of Coimbra (1822.04.16 – 1824.04.30); later Latin Patriarch of Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal) ([1840] 1843.04.03 – death 1845.05.07), created Cardinal-Priest with no Title assigned (1843.06.19 – 1845.05.07)
  • René-Fernand-Bernardin Collin, Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (1949.05.26 – 1958.12.21), first as Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Port-Said (Egypt) (1949.05.26 – 1952.01.18), then succeeding as Apostolic Vicar of Port-Said (1952.01.18 – 1958.12.21); later Bishop of Digne (France) (1958.12.21 – retired 1980), died 1985
  • Knut Ansgar Nelson, English Benedictine Congregation (E.B.C.- (1962.07.02 – death 1990.03.31) as emeritate; previously Titular Bishop of Bilta (1947.08.11 – 1957.10.01) as Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Sweden (1947.08.11 – 1953.06.29) and (see) promoted as Coadjutor Bishop of Stockholm (Sweden) (1953.06.29 – 1957.10.01); later succeeded as Bishop of Stockholm (1957.10.01 – 1962.07.02)
  • Rafal Wladyslaw Kiernicki, Conventual Franciscans (O.F.M. Conv.) (1991.01.16 – death 1995.11.23) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Lviv (Ukraine) (1991.01.16 – 1995.11.23)
  • Aloysius Paul D'Souza (born India) (1996.01.11 – 1996.11.08) as Auxiliary Bishop of Mangalore (India) (1996.01.11 – 1996.11.08); next succeeded as Bishop of Mangalore (1996.11.08 – ...)
BIOs TO ELABORATE
  • Anthony Giroux Meagher (later Archbishop) (1997.04.30 – 2002.04.27)
  • Rafael Francisco Martínez Sáinz (2002.06.19 – 2016.11.06) as
  • (2016.12.20 – ...): Allwyn D’Silva (), Auxiliary Bishop of Bombay (India)

See also

References

  1. ↑ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1).
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