Rufiniana

Africa Proconsularis (125 AD)

The diocese of Rufiniana (Latin: Dioecesis Rufinianensis) is a suppressed and titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church. ^[1]

The exact location of the diocese, now lost to history but it was in northern Tunisia. ^[2]

History

There are two documented bishops of this diocese: ^{[3] [4]}

• the Catholic Mariano, who spoke at the Carthage conference of 411, which saw the Catholic and Donatist bishops of Roman Africa gathered together; on that occasion the bishopric did not have Donatist bishops;
• the bishop Donatus, who took part in the synod gathered in Carthage by the Vandal king of Hungary in 484, after which he was exiled.

Today Rufiniana survives as a titular bishop's seat; the current titular bishop is Anton Leichtfried, auxiliary bishop of Sankt Pölten.

Known Bishops

• Mariano (fl 411)
• Donato (fl 484)
• Nikë Prela (1969 - 1996)
• Luiz Vicente Bernetti, (1996 - 2005)
• Anton Leichtfried, (2006 - current)

References

1. entry at www.catholic-hierarchy.org.
2. entry at, www.gcatholic.org
3. Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 467.
4. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 263.