Dura was an ancient city and bishopric in Roman North Africa, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
Dura was an ancient city and bishopric in Roman North Africa, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
Dura was among the many cities in the Roman province of Byzacena that became a suffragan diocese. Its precise Roman location, in present-day 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).
The ancient city has been used as a titular see in the 17th and 19th centuries and regularly from 1933 to the present as the Latin titular bishopric of Dura (Latin: Curiate Italian) / Duren(sis) (Latin adjective). [1]
It has been held as a titular see by the following bishops:
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