Febiana

Febiana was city and former bishopric in Roman North Africa, which only remains a Latin Catholic titular see.

History

Febina, in present Tunisia, was among the many cities of sufficient importance in the Roman province of Byzacena, in the papal sway, to become a suffragan diocese of the Metropolitan of Carthage, but was to fade so completely its remains weren’t found, plausibly at the seventh century advent of Islam.

Two of its bishops are historically documented :

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin Titular bishopric of Febiana (Latin = Curiate Italian) / Febianen(sis) (Latin adjectve) It is vacant, having had the following incumbents, of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank, with an archiepiscopal exception :

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