Hirina

Hirina Hirena
City
Country	Tunisia

Hirina (Hirena) was a city and bishopric in southern Tunisia, known only through ecclesiastical records, which became a Latin titular bishopric.

Nothing is known of the city, the name of which may have been Hirina, Hiren or Iren., except that it was in the Roman province of Byzacena.

It was one of the many suffragan dioceses of the Metropolitan Archbishopric of Hadrumetum (Sousse).

Three bishops are known:

It was nominally restored as Latin Roman Catholic titular see of the lowest (episcopal) rank, Hirine (until 1924 also called Hirena) or Irina in Italian.

It has had the following incumbents, with a single archiepiscopal exception :

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton. 

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