Hirina


Hirina was a city and bishopric in southern Tunisia known only through ecclesiastical records.
Nothing is known of the city, the name of which may have been Hirina, Hiren or Iren, except that it was in the Roman province of Byzacena.
It is now a Latin titular bishopric.

Ecclesiastical history

It was one of the many suffragan dioceses of the Metropolitan Archbishopric of Hadrumetum.
Three bishops are known:
  • Tertullian, present at the conference of Carthage in 311
  • Saturus, exiled in 484 by Huneric with many other bishops
  • Theodore, who in 641 signed the letter from the Council of Byzacium to Constantine, son of Heraclius, against Monothelitism.

    Titular see

It was nominally restored as Latin Roman Catholic titular see of the lowest rank, Hirine or Irina in Italian.
It has had the following incumbents, with a single archiepiscopal exception :