Drâa-El-Gamra


Drâa-El-Gamra is an archaeological site in Tunisia, the site of the ancient city of Gor. It remains a Latin Catholic titular see.

History

In Antiquity the location was known as Gor. It was originally a Punic city. The Roman era civitas, mentioned by Saint Augustine, was located beside the aqueduct to Carthage.
Drâa-El-Gamra was the seat of an ancient episcopal see of the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis.
Only two bishops are historically known. Victor took part in the council held at Carthage in 256 by Saint Cyprian to discuss the question of the lapsi. Restitutus intervened at the Council of Carthage.
Like most of the many suffragans of Carthage, it faded.

Titular see

Gor was nominally restored as a Latin titular bishopric in 1933.
It has had the following incumbents, all of the fitting episcopal rank: