The exact location of the town is not known but it was in the
Sahel region of northern
Tunisia. Buleliana was among the municipalities of sufficient importance in the
Roman province of
Africa proconsularis and latter
Byzacena to become a
suffragan diocese in the papal sway. The town remained the
seat of a Christian bishopric through the
Roman,
Vandal and
Byzantine eras but faded like most after the
7th century advent of Islam. While Mesnage assigns three bishops to the see, other authors dispute two assignations: • Pancratius,
Donatist (heretical) dissident in (393), alternatively assigned to the diocese of
Baliana • Flavianus, participant at the
synod called in Carthage in 484 by king Huneric of the
Vandal Kingdom on the Donatist schism • Bonifacius, alternatively assigned to the diocese of
Bavagaliana. == Titular see ==