Decoriana
Decoriana was an ancient Roman–Berber city and former bishopric in Tunisia. It is now a Latin Catholic titular see.
History
Decoriana, in today's Tunisia, was important enough in the Roman province of Byzacena to become one of the many suffragans of its capital Hadrumetum's Metropolitan Archbishop, yet it was to fade.Residential bishops
There are only two known ancient bishops of this diocese.- Among the Catholic bishops summoned to Carthage in 484 by the Vandal King, Huneric was the Bishop Leander, who was exiled to Corsica.
- Paschasios, as bishop of Decorianensis in Byzacena, signed the acts of the African council antimonothelite in 646 and subscribed in 645/646 the letter sent from the bishops of Byzacena to the Byzantine emperor Constans II, asking him to persuade the Patriarch of Constantinople, Paul II, to abandon the monothelite heresy; the letter was read out at the Lateran Council in October 649; in the list of signatures his name appears twenty-first: Conc. Lat., p. 77, line 37
Titular see
It has had the following incumbents, all of the lowest rank:
- Felipe Benito Pacheco Condurú, as emeritate ; previously Bishop of Ilhéus , Bishop of Parnaíba
- Julius Gábriš, as Apostolic Administrator of the then Apostolic Administration of Trnava ; later Apostolic Administrator of the Metropolitan Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Trnava
- Max Mariu, S.M., as Auxiliary Bishop of Hamilton
- Jan Niemiec, as Auxiliary Bishop of Kamyanets-Podilskyi
- Guillermo Antonio Cornejo Monzón, as Auxiliary Bishop of Lima.