Tabunia, is an ancient city and former bishopric of Roman North Africa, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
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Tabunia, is an ancient city and former bishopric of Roman North Africa, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
Tabunia was among the many cities of significant importance in the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis to become a suffragan diocese of Carthage, in the papal sway.
The seat of the diocese, or cathedra, remains unknown and it is unknown when it ceased to function though it was some time between the Vandal Kingdom and the 7th century Muslim conquest of the Maghreb.
The only historically documented bishop of the diocese was Quintus, [1] who took part in the Council of Carthage (484) called by king Huneric of the Vandal Kingdom, after which he was exiled like most Catholic bishops, unlike their heretical-schismatic Donatist counterparts. [2] [3]
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin titular bishopric of Tabunia (Latin = Curiate Italian) / Tabunien(sis) (Latin adjective).
It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank : [4]
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