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]
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.
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]
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.