Foratiana

File:Roman Empire - Africa Proconsularis (125 AD).svg (125 CE)]]Foratiana was an ancient Roman-Berber city in the province of Byzacena and Africa Proconsularis in the Sahel region of Tunisia.Joseph Bingham, Origines ecclesiasticae - Volume 3 -(1840) [https://books.google.com/books?id=s85PAQAAIAAJ&dq=Foratiana&pg=PA230] Page 230] .

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 BonificeJonathan Conant, Staying Roman: Conquest and Identity in Africa and the Mediterranean, 439-700(Cambridge University Press, 2012) p175.Victor of Vita, [https://books.google.com/books?id=N_usIGzl5SwC&dq=Foratiana&pg=PA105 History of the Vandal Persecution]
• 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