Iucundiana

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Icundiana is a former city and bishopric in Roman North Africa which only remains a Latin Catholic titular see.

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History

Iucundiana was among the many cities of sufficient importance to become a suffragan diocese in the Roman province of, in the papal sway, but faded so completely, probably during the 7th century rise of Islam, that even its site in modern Algeria remains unclear.

Its only historically documented bishop, Secondinus, participated in the Council of Cabarsussi, called in 393 by the Maximianists, a dissident sect of the schismatic heresy Donatism, and signed its acts, and later attended the Council of Carthage in 411, confronting Catholic (prevailing) and Donatist (condemned) bishops of Roman Africa.

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin titular bishopric of Jucundiana (Latin, in 1971 'renamed' Iucundiana) / Giocondiana (Curiate Italian)/ Iucundianen(sis) (Latin adjective)

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

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