title: Rufiniana
text: # Rufiniana
  
  The diocese of Rufiniana (Latin: Dioecesis Rufinianensis) is a suppressed and titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church.
  
  The exact location of the diocese, now lost to history but it was in northern Tunisia.
  
  ## History
  
  There are two documented bishops of this diocese:
  
  * the Catholic Mariano, who spoke at the Carthage conference of 411, which saw the Catholic and Donatist bishops of Roman Africa gathered together; on that occasion the bishopric did not have Donatist bishops;
  * the bishop Donatus, who took part in the synod gathered in Carthage by the Vandal king of Hungary in 484, after which he was exiled.
  
  Today Rufiniana survives as a titular bishop's seat; the current titular bishop is Anton Leichtfried, auxiliary bishop of Sankt Pölten.
  
  ## Known Bishops
  
  * Mariano (fl 411)
  * Donato (fl 484)
  * Nikë Prela (1969 - 1996)
  * Luiz Vicente Bernetti, (1996 - 2005)
  * Anton Leichtfried, (2006 - current)
  