Blaundus was a Greek city founded during the Hellenistic period in Asia Minor, presently Anatolia, and is now a Latin Catholic titular bishopric.
The ruins at Baundos, Turkey
The See of Sardis or Sardes was an episcopal see in the city of that name. It was one of the Seven Churches of the Apocalypse, held by metropolitan bishops since the middle to late 1st century, with j
The martyrdom of Euthymius of Sardis. From the Madrid Skylitzes.
Clement, a disciple of Paul the Apostle (pictured), attested to in Paul's Epistle to the Philippians is the first recorded bishop of Sardis.
Eugenio Pacelli (future Pope Pius XII) was made titular archbishop of Sardis by Pope Benedict XV.