Nova, Africa
Nova is a former ancient city and Roman bishopric, now in Tunisia and a Latin Catholic titular see.
History
It was important enough in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis, in the papal sway, to become one of the many suffragan dioceses of its capital's Metropolitan of Carthage, but faded like most.It has two historically documented bishops:
- Rogatianus, participant at the Council of Carthage called in 256 by its saint Cyprian on the lapsi, Christians who accepted forced pagan sacrificing to avoid martyrdom
- Secondinus, who intervened at a council in Constantinople in 451.
Titular see
In 1933, the diocese was nominally restored as the Latin titular bishopric of Nova / Noven. The title has been held by:- Paul-Marie-Maurice Perrin
- Francis John Spence
- Johannes Kleineidam as Auxiliary Bishop of Berlin
- Lajos Bálint
- Mario del Valle Moronta Rodríguez as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Caracas, later Bishop of Los Teques, Bishop of San Cristóbal de Venezuela, Second Vice-President of Episcopal Conference of Venezuela
- Luigi De Magistris
- Juan Carlos Cárdenas Toro, Auxiliary Bishop of Cali, no previous prelature