Bulna (North Africa)

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Bulnensis also known as Bulna is a titular episcopal see of the Roman Catholic Church [1] ascribed to [2] the ecclesiastical province of Africa Proconsularis, as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Carthage. [3] [4]

Very little is known of the ancient diocese. The bishopric is mentioned by Optatus of Milevi [5] who lists the bishop Victor with the Proconsularis bishops at a council of 646. No other bishops are known to us and even the location of Bulna is not known, though doubtless it was in Tunisia.

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References

  1. Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig 1931), p. 464
  2. Titular Episcopal See of Bulna at GCàtholic.org.
  3. Bulnensis at catholic-hierarchy.org.
  4. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 109.
  5. Saints Zeno and Optatus, the first at Verona, the works of all the bishops of the other Milevi: Optatus (Milevitanus.) (Vrayet, 1845).