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Vinda was an Ancient city and bishopric in North Africa and is now a Latin Catholic titular see.
Vinda was a city in the Roman province of Africa proconsularis, near modern Henchir-Bandou in present Tunisia.
The Roman provinces were the lands and people outside of Rome itself that were controlled by the Republic and later the Empire. Each province was ruled by a Roman who was appointed as governor. Although different in many ways, they were similar to the states in Australia or the United States, the regions in the United kingdom or New Zealand, or the prefectures in Japan. Canada refers to some of its territory as provinces.
Tunisia (officially the Republic of Tunisia) is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa, covering 163,610 square kilometres. Its northernmost point, Cape Angela, is the northernmost point on the African continent. It is bordered by Algeria to the west and southwest, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Tunisia's population was 11.435 million in 2017. Tunisia's name is derived from its capital city, Tunis, which is located on its northeast coast.
It was important enough to become a suffragan bishopric of the Metropolitan in the provincial capital, Carthage.
The diocese was nominally restored in 1928 as a Latin Catholic titular see.
A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese".
It has had the following incumbents, both of the lowest (episcopal) and intermediary (archiepiscopal) ranks :
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Castro del Lazio was a residential bishopric from 600 to 1649 and is now a Latin Catholic titular see under the shortened name Castro.
The Catholic Archdiocese of Paris is one of twenty-three archdioceses of the Catholic Church in France. The original diocese is traditionally thought to have been created in the 3rd century by St. Denis and corresponded with the Civitas Parisiorum; it was elevated to an archdiocese on October 20, 1622.
Laurean Rugambwa was the first modern native African Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Dar es Salaam from 1968 to 1992, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1960.
Lousada is a town and municipality of the Porto district, in northern Portugal. The population in 2011 was 47,387, in an area of 96.08 km².
Furnos was the name of two towns and bishoprics in the Roman province of Proconsular Africa. They are referred to as Furnos Maior and Furnos Minor, as now as separate Latin Catholic titular sees.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lusaka is a Latin Rite Metropolitan Archdiocese in Zambia, where it is also considered its national primatial see
Doclea was a Roman city, the seat of the Late Roman province of Praevalitana, and Metropolitan Archbishopric, which is now a Latin Catholic titular see.
The Ethiopian Catholic Archeparchy of Addis Ababa, officially the Metropolitan sui iuris Archeparchy of Addis Ababa is the metropolitan see of the Ethiopian Catholic Church, a sui iuris metropolitan Eastern Catholic Church.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Zanzibar is a suffragan Latin diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania, covering that federation's insular Indian Ocean component.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rijeka is a Latin Catholic Metropolitan archdiocese in Croatia.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Gravelbourg was a Latin suffragan of the Archdiocese of Regina and presently a Latin Catholic titular see.
Bosporus is a former bishopric in the Crimean city now called Kerch but remains a Latin Catholic titular Archiepiscopal See.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rutabo was a short-lived (1951–1960) bishopric in Tanzania and is now a Latin Catholic titular see.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ohrid was a Latin Catholic archdiocese, suppressed in the 1700s, and is now a titular see, at modern Ohrid in the Republic of North Macedonia.
Algiza is a former Ancient city and bishopric in Asia Minor, now a Latin Catholic titular see.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Novigrad was a Latin rite diocese located in the city of Novigrad, Istria, Croatia until it was suppressed to the Diocese of Trieste in 1831.
Siccenna was a Roman Era town and episcopal see in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis in what is today northern Tunisia, which is now a Latin Catholic titular bishopric.
Caesariana (Cæsariana) was an Ancient city and diocese in Roman North Africa. It is now only a Roman Catholic titular see.
Cabarsussi, was an ancient civitas (municipality) and bishopric in the Roman province of Byzacena, that is tentatively identifiable with ruins at Drâa-Bellouan in modern Tunisia. The current bishop is Terence Robert Curtin, auxiliary bishop of Melbourne.
Mauriana was an Ancient city and bishopric in Roman North Africa, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
Sila was ancient city and bishopric in Roman North Africa, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
Febiana was city and former bishopric in Roman North Africa, which only remains a Latin Catholic titular see.