Turrisblanda, was a Roman and Byzantine era colonia (town) in the Roman Empire province of Byzacena in what is today modern Tunisia. Its exact location remains unknown.R. B. Hitchner "Turris Blanda". It was also a capital of an historic diocese of the Roman Empire.Joseph BINGHAM (M. A.), Origines ecclesiasticæ (William Straker, 1843) p286. The bishopric remains today as a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.David M. Cheney, Turrisblanda, at catholic-hierarchy.org.Titular Episcopal See of Turrisblanda at GCatholic.org.Steph. Antonii Morcelli, Africa Christiana: in tres partes tributa (ex officina Bettoniana, 1816). p338

Known bishops There are three bishops attributed to this diocese.Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 469Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), pp. 337–338. The Donatist Maximinus who attended the Carthage conference of 411, which brought together the Catholic and Donatist bishops of Roman Africa; on that occasion the town did not have the Catholic bishop. Paul who took part in the synod gathered in Carthage by the Huneric the Vandal king in 484, after which Paul was exiled. Datianus participated in the antimonothelite council of 641. The Titular see was established 1933. Jan Pietraszko, Auxiliary Bishop of Cracow November 23, 1962 – March 2, 1988 Jan Szkodoń, Auxiliary Bishop of Cracow May 14, 1988 – August 28, 2025

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