# Foratiana

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[[File:Roman Empire - Africa Proconsularis (125 AD).svg |thumb|right|[Africa Proconsularis](/source/Africa_(Roman_province)) (125 [CE](/source/Common_Era))]]'''Foratiana''' was an ancient [Roman](/source/Roman_Empire)-[Berber](/source/Berbers) city in the [province](/source/Roman_province) of [Byzacena](/source/Byzacena) and [Africa Proconsularis](/source/Africa_(Roman_province)) in the [Sahel region](/source/Sahel%2C_Tunisia) of [Tunisia](/source/Tunisia).<ref>[Joseph Bingham](/source/Joseph_Bingham), Origines ecclesiasticae - Volume 3 -(1840) [https://books.google.com/books?id=s85PAQAAIAAJ&dq=Foratiana&pg=PA230] Page 230] .</ref>

The [civitas](/source/civitas) was also the [seat](/source/cathedra) of an ancient [Christian](/source/Christianity) [diocese](/source/diocese). It survives today as a [titular see](/source/titular_see) of the [Roman Catholic Church](/source/Roman_Catholic_Church), suffran to [Carthage](/source/Carthage). Known Bishops include:
*Bishop Bonifice<ref>Jonathan Conant, Staying Roman: Conquest and Identity in Africa and the Mediterranean, 439-700([Cambridge University](/source/Cambridge_University) Press, 2012) p175.</ref><ref>[Victor of Vita](/source/Victor_of_Vita), [https://books.google.com/books?id=N_usIGzl5SwC&dq=Foratiana&pg=PA105 History of the Vandal Persecution]</ref>
*[John William Comber](/source/John_William_Comber) 1959–1998
*[Alberto Bottari de Castello](/source/Alberto_Bottari_de_Castello) 1999–2007
*[José Elías Rauda Gutiérrez](/source/Jos%C3%A9_El%C3%ADas_Rauda_Guti%C3%A9rrez) ([El Salvador](/source/El_Salvador)) 2008–2009
*[Bosco Puthur](/source/Bosco_Puthur) ([India](/source/India)) 2010–2014
* Mar [Bawai Soro](/source/Bawai_Soro) 2014

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