Henchir-Bladia

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Henchir-Bladia is an archaeological site and locality in southern Tunisia. The stone ruins are tentatively associated with Bladia, [1] a civitas of the Roman province of Byzacena during the Roman Empire. It was a Catholic bishopric.

Bladia was the seat of the Diocese of Bladia [2] [3] (Latin : Dioecesis Bladiensis), a home suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church. [4] that was suffragan to the Archdiocese of Carthage. [5]

History

Very little is known of the ancient town. Two bishops are known from here, The Catholic Potentiometer, who participated in the Council of Carthage (411) [6] and an unnamed Donatist bishop of Bladia. The conference proceedings have not recorded his name.

Today Bladia survives as a titular bishopric; [7] the current titular bishop is Víctor Iván Vargas Galarza, of Cochabamba.

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References

  1. Bladia at gcatholic.org.
  2. Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 464.
  3. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), pp. 103-104.
  4. J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912), pp. 183-184.
  5. Auguste Audollent, v. Bladia in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. IX, 1937, coll. 55-56.
  6. Patrologia Latina, vol.XI, col. 1281.
  7. Bladia at www.catholic-hierarchy.org.