Gratianopolis (Mauretania Caesariensis)


Gratianopolis was an ancient city and Roman Catholic diocese in Mauretania Caesariensis in the Maghreb. It now is a Latin Catholic titular see.
Gratianopolis was one of several towns named after the Roman emperor Gratian. It is only known from mentions in church council minutes. Its history, location and present condition are unknown.

Ecclesiastical history

Gratianopolis was important enough in the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis to become one of the suffragans of its Metropolitan Archbishop in the papal sway.
Its only historical recorded bishops attended 5th-century church councils:
The see was to fade like most, and apparently does not figure in a list of the bishoprics of the province preserved in a document of the sixth and seventh centuries, unless it be disguised under another native name.

Titular see

No later than 1652, the diocese has been nominally restored as a Latin titular bishopric of Gratianopolis / Grazianopoli / Gratianopolitan.
It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal rank :