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Pupiana


Pupiana was an ancient city and former bishopric in present-day Tunisia. It is currently a Latin Catholic titular see.

Pupiana was located near the modern Mra-Mita, Ain-Ouassel. It was important enough in the Roman province of Africa proconsularis to become a suffragan of its capital's Metropolitan Archbishopric Carthage, but faded.

The diocese was nominally restored as Pupiana, temporarily renamed Papiana in 1923-1929; the Italian curiate form is Papia.

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


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