Gummi in Byzacena

Gummi in Byzacena was a city and bishopric in Roman Africa, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.

The city, in modern Tunisia, presumed near modern Henchir-Gelama or Henchir-El-Senem, was important enough in the Roman province Byzacena to become one of the many suffragan sees of the Metropolitan of the provincial capital Hadrumetum (Sousse).

[1] The diocese continued up into the 11th century when pope Leo IX intervened in a struggle for precedence between the local bishop, favoured by the local Zirid rulers, and the archbishop of Carthage.

[2] The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Titular bishopric of the Episcopal (lowest) rank, under the names of Gummi in Byzacena (Latin), adjective Gummitan(us) in Byzacena (Latin) / Gummi di Bizacena (Curiate Italian) It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting episcopal rank with an archiepiscopal exception :