Decoriana

Decoriana is a former Ancient city and bishopric (Decoriensisor Dicensis)in Roman North Africa and present Latin Catholic titular diocese. ^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Roman Africa.

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, ^[6] yet it was to fade.

Residential bishops

There are only two known ancient bishops of this diocese.

• Among the Catholic bishops summoned to Carthage by the Vandal King, Huneric in 484 was the Bishop Leander (or Lenzio), who was exiled to Corsica.
• Paschasios (Pascasio), as bishop of Decorianensis in Byzacena, signed the acts of the African council antimonotelita 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, Paulos 2, to abandon the monothelete 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 ^[7]

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored in 1933, as a Latin Catholic titular bishopric Decoriana.

It has had the following incumbents, all of the lowest (episcopal) rank :

• Felipe Benito Pacheco Condurú, as emeritate (17 Jan 1959 Appointed - 1 Oct 1972 Died); previously Bishop of Ilhéus (Brazil) (1941.04.19 – 1946.02.07), Bishop of Parnaíba (Brazil) (1946.02.07 – 1959.01.17)
• Julius Gábriš (19 Feb 1973 Appointed - 13 Nov 1987 Died), as Apostolic Administrator of the then Apostolic Administration of Trnava (Slovakia) (1973.02.19 – 1977.12.30); later Apostolic Administrator of the Metropolitan Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Trnava (Slovakia) (1977.12.30 – 1987.11.13)
• Matthew Takuira Max Mariu, Marists (S.M.) (30 Jan 1988 Appointed - 12 Dec 2005 Died), as Auxiliary Bishop of Hamilton (New Zealand) (1988.01.30 – 2005.12.12)
• Jan Niemiec (20 October 2006.10.20 – ...), Auxiliary Bishop of Kamyanets-Podilsky (Ukraine)^[8]

References

1. Louis de Mas Latrie, Migne, Dictionnaire de statistique religieuse et de l'art de vérifier les dates... (J.-P. Migne, 1831 - France)p 653.
2. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Bettoni, Steph. Antonii Morcelli,... Africa Christiana: in tres partes tributa (ex officina Bettoniana, 1816) p 150.
3. Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae , Leipzig 1931, p. 465.
4. Copertina anteriore Stefano Antonio Morcelli , Africa Christiana: in tres partes pays, Volume 1 (Betton, 1816)p150.
5. J. Ferron, v. Decorianensis in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques , vol. IX,(1937), col. 155
6. Decoriana. at GCatholic.org.
7. "Pascasius misericordia dei episcopus sanctae ecclesiae Decorianensis"
8. Decori also known as Decoriana at Catholic heirachy.org.

Source and External links

• GCatholic