Pertusa (Africa)


Pertusa was an ancient city and diocese in Tunisia. It is now a Catholic titular bishopric.

History

The Bishopric of Ad Pertusa was centered on the ancient Roman civitas of Pertvsa, which has been identified with ruins at modern El-Haraïria, an outer suburb of Tunis. During the Roman Empire Pertusa was located in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis and was important enough to become a bishopric, which was suffragan to the nearby Metropolitan, of Carthage.
The town is mentioned in the Antonini Itinerarium.

Titular see

It was nominally revived in 1933 as a Latin titular see of the lowest in 1933, and has almost constantly been awarded. Its incumbents were mostly secular priests :