Pupiana
Pupiana was an ancient city and former bishopric in present-day Tunisia. It is currently a Latin Catholic titular see.
History
Pupiana was located near the modern Mra-Mita, Ain-Ouassel. It was important enough in the Roman province of Africa proconsularis to become a suffragan of its capital's Metropolitan Archbishopric Carthage, but faded.Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored as Pupiana, temporarily renamed Papiana in 1923–1929; the Italian curiate form is Papia.It has had the following incumbents, of the lowest rank :
- Igino Nuti, Friars Minor
- Jan Nowicki
- Marian Jozef Rechowicz
- Henry Apaloryamam Ssentongo
- Virgil Bercea
- Oscar Julio Vian Morales, Salesians, as Apostolic Vicar of El Petén, later Metropolitan Archbishop of Los Altos, Quetzaltenango–Totonicapán, Metropolitan Archbishop of Guatemala, restyled Metropolitan Archbishop of Santiago de Guatemala
- Otto Separy
- Joseph M. Siegel, Auxiliary Bishop of Joliet