Tubunae is a Catholic titular see

Titular see

A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular bishop", "titular metropolitan", or "titular archbishop"....

. The original diocese

Diocese

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 was in Mauretania Caesariensis

Mauretania Caesariensis

Mauretania Caesariensis was a Roman province located in northwestern Africa. It was the easternmost of the North African Roman provinces, mainly in present Algeria, with its capital at Caesarea , now Cherchell.-Historical background:In the first century AD, Roman...

, according to the "Gerachia cattolica", or in Numidia

Numidia

Numidia was an ancient Berber kingdom in part of present-day Eastern Algeria and Western Tunisia in North Africa. It is known today as the Chawi-land, the land of the Chawi people , the direct descendants of the historical Numidians or the Massyles The kingdom began as a sovereign state and later...

 according to Battandier, "Annuaire pontifical catholique" (Paris, 1910), 345. The official list of the Roman Curia

Roman Curia

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 does not mention it. The confusion is explained by the fact that it was located at the boundary of the two provinces.

Bocking

Bocking

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, in his notes to the Notitia dignitatum (Bonn, 1839); 523, and Toulotte ("Greg. de l'Afrique chret., Mauretanies", Montreuil, 1894, p. 171), speak of two distinct cities, while Muller ("Notes to Ptolemy", IV, 12, ed. Didot, I, 611) admits only one. It was a municipium

Municipium

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and also an important frontier post in command of a praepositus limitis Tubuniensis.

Augustine of Hippo

Augustine of Hippo

Augustine of Hippo , also known as Augustine, St. Augustine, St. Austin, St. Augoustinos, Blessed Augustine, or St. Augustine the Blessed, was Bishop of Hippo Regius . He was a Latin-speaking philosopher and theologian who lived in the Roman Africa Province...

 and Alypius

Alypius of Constantinople

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 sojourned there as guests of Count Boniface (Ep. ccxx). In 479 Huneric

Huneric

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 exiled a large number of Catholics there. Its ruins, known as Tobna, are in the Department of Constantine, Algeria

Algeria

Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...

, at the gates of the Sahara, west of the Chott el-Hodna, the "Salinae Tubunenses" of the Romans. They are very extensive, for three successive towns occupied different sites, under the Romans, the Byzantines, and the Arabs. Besides the remains of the fortress, the most remarkable monument is a church now used as a mosque.

Bishops

Three bishops of Tubunae are known. St. Nemesianus assisted at the Council of Carthage in 256. St. Cyprian often speaks of him in his letters, and we have a letter which he wrote to St. Cyprian in his own name and in the name of those who were condemned with him to the mines. An inscription testifies to his cult at Tixter

Tixter

Tixter is a town and commune in Bordj Bou Arréridj Province, Algeria. According to the 1998 census it has a population of 9,493.-References:...

 in 360, and the Roman Martyrology

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mentions him on 10 September. Another bishop was Cresconius

Cresconius

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, who usurped the see after quitting the Bulla Regia

Bulla Regia

Bulla Regia is an archaeological site in northwestern Tunisia, a former Roman city near modern Jendouba. It is noted for its Hadrianic-era semi-subterranean housing, a protection from the fierce heat and effects of the sun. Many of the mosaic floors have been left in situ; others may be seen at the...

, and assisted at the Council of Carthage in 411, where his rival was the Donatist

Donatist

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 Protasius. A third, Reparatus, was exiled by Huneric in 484.