Bordj-Bou-Djadi is an archaeological site and former Catholic diocese located on the outskirts of Tunis, Tunisia. The area is situated near Ucres, at 36.901123n, 9.97083e. It is now a Latin Catholic titular see.
The stone ruins at Bordj-Bou-Djadi have been tentatively identified with the Roman–Berber town of Ucres, a civitas of the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis, important enough to become one of the many suffragans of Carthage, the Metropolitan at its capital. [1] [2] It flourished from 30BC until around 640AD.
Several of its bishops are known from antiquity: [3]
The ancient diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church, [4] as Ucres (Latin and Curiate Italian) / Ucren(sis) (Latin adjective)/
It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank:
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