Batriana was a civitas (town) of Roman North Africa. The location of the town remains unknown but it was somewhere south of Tunis (Carthage).
The town was also the seat of a Roman era Christian bishopric, which although ceasing to function with the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb, survives today as a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church, and the current bishop is Renzo Fratini of Andorra.[1][2][3]
References
edit- ^ Le Petit Episcopologe, issue 136, No12175.
- ^ http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/dioces/d2b86.html[permanent dead link].
- ^ http://www.gcatholic.org/dioces/former/t0340.htm [dead link]