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Zuri was a city and bishopric in Roman North Africa, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
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Zuri was a city and bishopric in Roman North Africa, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
Zuri, possibly identical with present Aïn-Djour, near Carthage in Tunisia, was among the many cities of sufficient important in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis, to become a suffragan diocese of its Metropolitan capital Carthage's archbishopric, in the papal sway, yet faded completely, plausibly at the seventh century advent of Islam.
Its only historically recorded bishop, Paulinus, participated as one of the Catholic bishops of Roman Africa in the Council of Carthage in 411, with the schismatic Donatist bishops, which condemned their heresy.
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The diocese was nominally restored in 1928 as Latin titular bishopric of Zuri (Latin = Curiate Italian) / Zuritan(us) (Latin adjective).
It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting Episcopal (lowest)rank with an archiepiscopal exception :