{{lead too short|date=November 2016}} '''Decoriana''' (Decoriensis or Dicensis) was an ancient Roman–Berber city and former bishopric in Tunisia. It is now a Latin Catholic titular see.<ref>Louis de Mas Latrie, Migne, Dictionnaire de statistique religieuse et de l'art de vérifier les dates... (J.-P. Migne, 1831 - France)[https://books.google.com/books?id=mC699Z95UroC&dq=Decorianensis&pg=PA653 p 653].</ref><ref>Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Bettoni, Steph. Antonii Morcelli,... ''Africa Christiana'': in tres partes tributa (ex officina Bettoniana, 1816) [https://books.google.com/books?id=Ym4zxnsbuGUC&dq=Decorianensis&pg=PA150 p 150].</ref><ref>[http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/doccontent?id=65154&dirids=1 Pius Bonifacius Gams, ''Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae'', Leipzig 1931, p. 465].</ref><ref>Copertina anteriore Stefano Antonio Morcelli , ''Africa Christiana'': in tres partes pays, Volume 1 (Betton, 1816)[https://books.google.com/books?id=dO4-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA150 p150].</ref><ref>J. Ferron, v. Decorianensis in ''Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques'', vol. IX,(1937), col. 155</ref> thumb|right|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,<ref>[http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t0625.htm Decoriana]. at GCatholic.org.</ref> yet it was to fade.
=== Residential bishops === There are only two known ancient bishops of this diocese. * Among the Catholic bishops summoned to Carthage in 484 by the Vandal King, Huneric 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 antimonothelite 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, Paul II, to abandon the monothelite 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 <ref>"Pascasius misericordia dei episcopus sanctae ecclesiae Decorianensis"</ref>
=== 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) * Max Mariu, 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 (21 Oct 2006 – 27 Oct 2020 Died), as Auxiliary Bishop of Kamyanets-Podilskyi (Ukraine)<ref>[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d2d21.html Decori also known as Decoriana] at Catholic-hierarchy.org.</ref> * Guillermo Antonio Cornejo Monzón (10 Feb 2021 – present), as Auxiliary Bishop of Lima.
== See also == * Catholic Church in Tunisia
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links == * [http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t0625.htm GCatholic]
{{Subject bar |portal1= Catholicism |portal2= Africa}} Category:Catholic titular sees in Africa Category:Former Roman Catholic dioceses in Africa