Benda, Albania

Benda is an Ancient city and former diocese in present Albania, now a Latin Catholic titular see.

History

Benda was important enough in the Roman province of Epirus Novus to become a suffragan diocese of its capital Dyrrhachium's Metropolitan Archbishopric.

Titular see

It was nominally restored as a Latin titular bishopric in 1760.

It has had the following incumbents, all of the lowest (episcopal) rank :

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