Titular bishopric of Tunes

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Tunes is a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church .

It goes back to a lost bishopric in the ancient city of Tunes in the Roman province of Africa proconsularis , today's Tunis in Tunisia. The bishopric was assigned to the ecclesiastical province of Carthage .

Titular Bishops of Tunes
No. Surname Office from to
1 Vicente Buytrón OP Auxiliary Bishop in Tarazona ( Spain ) 1502
2 Jozef Floribert Cornelis OSB Vicar Apostolic of Katanga ( Belgian Congo ) November 27, 1958 November 10, 1959
3 Albert Descamps November 3, 1960–1964 Auxiliary Bishop in Tournai ( Belgium )
March 21, 1973 - October 15, 1980 Secretary of the Pontifical Biblical Commission
November 3, 1960 October 15, 1980
4th Francesco De Nittis
Titular Archbishop
Apostolic Delegate and Nuncio March 7, 1981 March 10, 2014
5 Luiz Carlos Dias Auxiliary Bishop in São Paulo ( Brazil ) March 16, 2016

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