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Gratiana was an ancient city and bishopric in Roman Africa, which remains a latin catholic titular see.[1][2]
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Today Gratiana survives as a titular bishopric and the current archbishop, personal title, is Francisco Escalante Molina, apostolic nuncio to the Republic of the Congo and Gabon.[3]
Gratiana, in modern Tunisia, was among the many towns of sufficient importance in the Roman province of Byzacena to become a suffragan of Carthage,[4] but would completely fade, plausibly at the 7th century advent of Islam.
During the Roman Empire the bishopric was centered on a town (now lost to history[5]) in the Roman province of Byzacena. Three of its bishops are historically documented:
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as a titular bishopric of Gratiana (Latin) / Graziana (Curiate Italian) / Gratianen(sis) (Latin adjective)
It has had the following incumbents, albeit so far none of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank but all archiepiscopal:
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