Thucca terebenthina

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Thucca Terebenthina is a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church, in Tunisia. [1]

The cathedra of the diocese was in a now lost Roman town located in the Roman province of Byzacena and Africa proconsularis in what is today the Sahel region of Northern Tunisia. [2] [3] The current bishop is Anton Žerdín Bukovec of Peru, who replaced Luis Sáinz Hinojosa.

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