Zarna was a Roman town of the Roman Empire during late antiquity. An exact location for the town has been lost to history,Titular Episcopal See of Zarna, at GCatholic.org. although that it was in the Roman province of Africa Proconsolare means it must have been in northern Tunisia.
In antiquity the town was also the seat of a Christian bishopric,Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 470. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 369. suffragan of the Archdiocese of Carthage. Only one bishop of this diocese is documented Vitale, who took part in the antimonotelita Council of Carthage of 646.
Today Zarna survives as a titular bishopricZama at catholic-hierarchy.org of the Roman Catholic Church and the current bishop is Francisco Antonio Ceballos Escobar of Puerto Carreño.Titular Episcopal See of Zarna, at GCatholic.org. who replaced Edmar Peron in 2016.Titular Episcopal See of Zarna, at GCatholic.org.
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