Diocese of Torreblanda

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The Diocese of Torreblanda (Latin : Dioecesis Turreblandensis) was a Roman Catholic diocese in ancient Byzacena.

History

Torreblanda was an ancient episcopal seat of the Roman province of Byzacena in Tunisia. The diocese ceased to effectively function with the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb but the diocese was in name at least reborn in the 1930s as a titular see.

There are five bishops attributed to this diocese. [1] [2]

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References

  1. Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 469,
  2. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), pp. 337-338.