Afufenia (also called Afufeniensis) was a Roman era city in the province of Byzacena. Its exact location is unknown, but it would have been situated in central Tunisia.
Afufenia was also the seat of an ancient Catholic bishopric.Auguste Audollent, v. Afufeniensis, in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. I, (Paris, 1909), col. 871Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), pp.70-71 and was mentioned by Optatus.M. Casauboni,Optati Afri Milevitani Episcopi de Schismate Donatistarum contra Parmenianum Donatistam libri septem. In eosdem notæ et emendations (1700). One bishop is known from Afufenia,Jean Louis Maier, The Episcopate of Roman, Vandal and Byzantine Africa (Swiss Institute of Rome 1973) p98. Mansueto, who was among the Catholic bishops summoned to Carthage in 484 by the Vandal king Huneric and then exiled. According to MesnageJ. Mesnage L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912), p.177 it would be the same Mansueto remembered by Vetus Romanum Martyrology as of September 6. Today Afufenia survives as a titular bishopric,Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae (Leipzig, 1931), p. 464 with the current bishop being Raúl Alfonso Carrillo Martínez, Vicar Apostolic of Puerto Gaitán. Afufenia at GCatholic.org. He replaced Paul J. Bradley in 2004.
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