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, 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
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) •
Guillermo Antonio Cornejo Monzón (10 Feb 2021 – present), as Auxiliary Bishop of Lima. == See also ==