Gummi in Byzacena

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Gummi in Byzacena was a city and bishopric in Roman Africa, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.

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History

The city, in modern Tunisia, presumed near modern Henchir-Gelama or Henchir-El-Senem, was important enough in the Roman province Byzacena to become one of the many suffragan sees of the Metropolitan of the provincial capital Hadrumetum (Sousse), but like many faded.

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Titular bishopric of the Episcopal (lowest) rank, under the names of Gummi in Byzacena (Latin), adjective Gummitan(us) in Byzacena (Latin) / Gummi di Bizacena (Curiate Italian)

It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting episcopal rank with an archiepiscopal exception :

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