[[File:Roman Empire - Africa Proconsularis (125 AD).svg |thumb|right|Africa Proconsularis (125 CE)]]'''Foratiana''' was an ancient Roman-Berber city in the province of Byzacena and Africa Proconsularis in the Sahel region of Tunisia.<ref>Joseph Bingham, Origines ecclesiasticae - Volume 3 -(1840) [https://books.google.com/books?id=s85PAQAAIAAJ&dq=Foratiana&pg=PA230] Page 230] .</ref>
The civitas was also the seat of an ancient Christian diocese. It survives today as a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church, suffran to Carthage. Known Bishops include: *Bishop Bonifice<ref>Jonathan Conant, Staying Roman: Conquest and Identity in Africa and the Mediterranean, 439-700(Cambridge University Press, 2012) p175.</ref><ref>Victor of Vita, [https://books.google.com/books?id=N_usIGzl5SwC&dq=Foratiana&pg=PA105 History of the Vandal Persecution]</ref> *John William Comber 1959–1998 *Alberto Bottari de Castello 1999–2007 *José Elías Rauda Gutiérrez (El Salvador) 2008–2009 *Bosco Puthur (India) 2010–2014 * Mar Bawai Soro 2014
==References== {{reflist}} Category:Former populated places in Tunisia Category:Archaeological sites in Tunisia Category:Catholic titular sees in Africa Category:Roman towns and cities in Africa (Roman province)
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