Midès
Midès is a mountain oasis in Tunisia. As Ancient Mades, it was a bishopric and remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
Modern town
It has a pleasant canyon and an abandoned village. It is located in the hill country near the border with Algeria, and is 6 km from Tamerza.The canyon was used for filming Raiders of the Lost Ark and The English Patient.
History
Mades was among the many towns that were important enough in the Roman province of Numidia to become a suffragan bishopric, in the papal sway.Its only historically documented bishop, Petrus, participated in the synod, called in Carthage by the Vandal Kingdom's ruler Huneric in 484, after which he went in exile, like many Catholic bishops, unlike their Donatist heretic counterparts.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Titular bishopric of Mades / Maden.It had had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal rank :
- Antoine Grauls, White Fathers as last Apostolic Vicar of Urundi and restyled only Apostolic Vicar of Kitega ; next promoted first Metropolitan Archbishop of Gitega ; emeritate as Titular Archbishop of Giru Marcelli
- Miguel Paternain, Redemptorists on emeritate; formerly Bishop of Melo, then first Bishop of Florida–Melo, Bishop of Florida ; next 'promoted' Titular Archbishop of Acrida
- Geraldo Claudio Luiz Micheletto Pellanda, Passionists as Coadjutor Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of [Ponta Grossa|Ponta Grossa] ; next succeeded as Bishop of Ponta Grossa
- José Germán Benavides Morriberón as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Arequipa, died 1985; previously Bishop of Chachapoyas
- Joseph Phan Thế Hinh as Coadjutor Bishop of Hung Hoá ; next succeeded as Bishop of Hung Hoá
- Antonio Moreno Casamitjana as Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago (de Chile) ; next Metropolitan Archbishop of Concepción, died 2003
- Rafael Llano Cifuentes as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro ; next Bishop of Nova Friburgo
- José Lanza Neto as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Londrina ; next Bishop of Guaxupé
- Valentin Reynoso Hidalgo, Sacred Heart Missionaries, Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Santiago de los Caballeros .