Titular diocese of Cariana

Cariana is a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church .

The diocese Carianensis was located in the Roman province of Africa near Byzacena (Bizacena), in what is now the Sahel region of Tunisia . Two smaller provinces, Byzacena and Tripolitania , were separated from the large province of Africa by the Roman Emperor Diocletian as part of his administrative reforms at the end of the 3rd century AD . In 590 the Byzacena became part of the Exarchate of Carthage .

List of titular bishops

• Tadeusz Pawel Zakrzewski (1938–1946), auxiliary bishop in Łomża
• René van Heusden SDB (1947–1958), Vicar Apostolic of Sakania
• Charles Salatka (1961–1968), Auxiliary Bishop in Grand Rapids
• Aníbal Muñoz Duque (1968–1972), Coadjutor Archbishop of Bogotá
• Marcial Augusto Ramírez Ponce (1972–1998), auxiliary bishop in Caracas
• Everardus de Jong , since 1998, auxiliary bishop in Roermond

See also

• List of the Roman Catholic titular dioceses

Web links

• Entry in catholic-hierarchy.org (English)