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Country
  
Tunisia

Local time
  
Thursday 8:11 AM

Time zone
  
CET (UTC+1)

Bir El Hafey

Governorate
  
Sidi Bouzid Governorate

Weather
  
9°C, Wind SW at 3 km/h, 89% Humidity

Bir El Hafey is a town and commune in the Sidi Bouzid Governorate, in Tunisia (Mahreb, North Africa). As of 2004 it had a population of 36,405.

Contents

Map of Bir Al Huffay, Tunisia

History of Nara

Bir El Hafey is the modern site of the Ancient, notably Roman, city of Nara.

Ecclesiastical history

Nara was important enough in the Roman province of Byzacena to become a suffragan bishopric of the Metropolitan Achbishop of Hadrumetum, but faded.

Titular see of Nara

The diocese was nominally in 1925 restored as a Latin titular bishopric.

It has had the following incumbents, all of the lowest (episcopal) rank :

  • Raffaele Angelo Palazzi (柏長青), Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (1928.06.15 – 1946.04.11)
  • Patrick Dunne (1946.08.08 – 1988.03.16)
  • Nino Marzoli, Resurrectionists (C.R.) (1988.04.16 – 2000.05.24)
  • Jerome Edward Listecki (2000.11.07 – 2004.12.29), later Archbishop )
  • Jerzy Maculewicz, Conventual Franciscans (O.F.M. Conv.), Apostolic Administrator of Uzbekistan (2005.04.01 – ...)
  • References

    Bir El Hafey Wikipedia