The diocese of Rufiniana (Latin: Dioecesis Rufinianensis) is a suppressed and titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church.[1]
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The exact location of the diocese, now lost to history but it was in northern Tunisia.[2]
History
editThere are two documented bishops of this diocese:[3][4]
- the Catholic Mariano, who spoke at the Carthage conference of 411, which saw the Catholic and Donatist bishops of Roman Africa gathered together; on that occasion the bishopric did not have Donatist bishops;
- the bishop Donatus, who took part in the synod gathered in Carthage by the Vandal king of Hungary in 484, after which he was exiled.
Today Rufiniana survives as a titular bishop's seat; the current titular bishop is Anton Leichtfried, auxiliary bishop of Sankt Pölten.
Known Bishops
edit- Mariano (fl 411)
- Donato (fl 484)
- Nikë Prela (1969 - 1996)
- Luiz Vicente Bernetti, (1996 - 2005)
- Anton Leichtfried, (2006 - current)
References
edit- ^ entry at www.catholic-hierarchy.org.
- ^ entry at, www.gcatholic.org
- ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 467.
- ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 263.