Nationa

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Nationa was an ancient city and bishopric in Roman Africa, which only remains a Latin Catholic titular see.

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History

Nationa, in present Tunisia, was among the many cities in the Roman province of Byzacena, in the papal sway, which became suffragan dioceses of Carthage but faded so completely, plausibly at the 7th century advent of Islam, that no exact site was even identified.

Two of its bishops are historically documented :

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin titular bishopric of Nationa (Latin) / Naziona (Curiate Italian) / Nationen(sis) (Latin adjective).

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

See also

  1. Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 467
  2. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 241.
  3. GCatholic .

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