Titular bishopric of Tunes
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 |
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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 |