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Dura (titular see)


Dura was an Ancient city and bishopric in Roman North Africa, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.

Dura was among the many cities in the Roman province of Byzacena that were important enough to become a suffragan diocese, but destined to fade so completely, that even its precise location, in present Tunisia, remains unknown.

Its only historically documented bishop, Quodvultdeus, was among the Catholic bishops attending the Council of Carthage called in 484 by king Huneric of the Vandal Kingdom on the heresy Donatism, after which and many of his party were exiled, unlike their schismatic counterparts (none of which is named for Dura).

The diocese was nominally restored (in the 17th century and again?) in 1933 as Latin titular bishopric of Dura (Latin = Curiate Italian) / Duren(sis) (Latin adjective).

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


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