Henchir-Bladia is an archaeological site and locality in southern Tunisia. The stone ruins are tentatively associated with Bladia, Bladia at gcatholic.org. 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 BladiaPius Bonifacius Gams, Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 464.Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), pp. 103-104. (), a home suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912), pp. 183-184. that was suffragan to the Archdiocese of Carthage.Auguste Audollent, v. Bladia in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. IX, 1937, coll. 55-56.
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)Patrologia Latina, vol.XI, col. 1281. and an unnamed Donatist bishop of Bladia. The conference proceedings have not recorded his name.
Today Bladia survives as a titular bishopric; Bladia at www.catholic-hierarchy.org. the current titular bishop is Víctor Iván Vargas Galarza, of Cochabamba.
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