Edistiana was an ancient Roman–Berber city in the province of Africa Proconsularis and in late antiquity of Byzacena. It was located in the modern Tunisia.Edistiana diocese at www.gcatholic.org. It was a former Catholic diocese.
Edistiana was a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church.Joseph Bingham, Origines ecclesiasticæ.Edistiana at catholic-hierarchy.org.
Only one bishop of Edistiana is known, Miggin, a Donatist, at the Council of Carthage (411). Today Edistiana survives today as a titular bishopric;Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 465.Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 153.J. Ferron, v. Edistianensis in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. IX, (1937), col. 1437. the current titular bishop is Johannes Kreidler of Rottenburg–Stuttgart.La diocesi at www.gcatholic.org.
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