Roman Africa map Turrisblanda, was a

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and

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era '' colonia'' (town) in the Roman Empire

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Byzacena Byzacena (or Byzacium) (, ''Byzakion'') was a Late Roman province in the central part of Roman North Africa, which is now roughly Tunisia, split off from Africa Proconsularis. History At the end of the 3rd century AD, the Roman emperor Dioclet ...

in what is today modern

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. Its exact location remains unknown. It was also a capital of an historic

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of the Roman Empire. The

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remains today as a

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of the

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. The current bishop is Jan Szkodoń, Auxiliary

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Known bishops

There are three bishops attributed to this diocese.Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (

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, 1816), pp. 337–338. *The

Donatist Donatism was a schism from the Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Carthage from the fourth to the sixth centuries. Donatists argued that Christian clergy must be faultless for their ministry to be effective and their prayers and sacraments to ...

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 Huneric, Hunneric or Honeric (died December 23, 484) was King of the (North African) Vandal Kingdom (477–484) and the oldest son of Gaiseric. He abandoned the imperial politics of his father and concentrated mainly on internal affairs. He was ma ...

the

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king in 484, after which Paul was

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d. *Datianus participated in the antimonothelite council of 641. The

Titular see A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular metropolitan" (highest rank), "titular archbi ...

was established 1933. * Jan Pietraszko, Auxiliary

November 23, 1962 – March 2, 1988 * Jan Szkodoń, Auxiliary Bishop of Cracow May 14, 1988

References

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