Benda is an Ancient city and former diocese in present Albania, now a Latin Catholic titular see.
Benda was important enough in the Roman province of Epirus Novus to become a suffragan diocese of its capital Dyrrhachium's Metropolitan Archbishopric.
It was nominally restored as a Latin titular bishopric in 1760.
It has had the following incumbents, so far all of the fitting lowest (episcopal) rank :
Hieronim Wielogłowski (1760.09.22 – 1767.01), as Coadjutor Bishop of Przemyśl (Poland) (1760.09.22 – death 1767.01)
Władysław Jan Walknowski (1768.12.19 – 1779.12), as Coadjutor Bishop of then bishopric Poznań (Posen, now primatial see of Poland) (1768.12.19 – death 1779.12)
Józef Wojciech Gadomski (1782.09.23 – 1791.06.23), Coadjutor Bishop of Płock (Poland) (1782.09.23 – death 1791.06.23)
Antonio de Stefano, Conventual Franciscans (O.F.M. Conv.) (1849.08.28 – death 1893.11.01) as Apostolic Vicar of Moldavia (Romania) (1849.08.28 – retired 1859.11.27)
Francesco Uccellini (1894.05.18 – 1895.05.18), later Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Kotor (Cattaro, Montenegro) (1895.05.18 – death 1937.06.04)
Jean-Marie Dépierre, Paris Foreign Missions Society (M.E.P.) (1895.04.12 – death 1898.10.17) as Apostolic Vicar of Western Cochin (Vietnam) (1895.04.12 – 1898.10.17)
Paolo Schirò (1904.01.26 – death 1941.09.12), as Eastern Catholic Ordinary of Sicilia of the Italo-Albanese (Byzantine rite; southern Italy) (1904.01.26 – retired 1937.10.26)
Maurice-Bernard-Benoit-Joseph Despatures, M.E.P. (1942.09.06 – 1963.08.26), as emeritate; former Bishop of Mysore (India) (1922.06.21 – 1940.02.13) and Bishop of Bangalore (India) (1940.02.13 – 1942.09.06)
James Edward McManus, Redemptorists (C.SS.R.) (1963.11.18 – death 1976.07.03) as Auxiliary Bishop of New York (NY, USA) (1963.11.18 – 1970) and on emeritate; previously Bishop of Ponce (Puerto Rico, US Antilles) (1947.05.10 – resigned 1963.11.18)
Georges Edmond Robert Gilson (1976.07.13 – 1981.08.13), as Auxiliary Bishop of Paris (France) (1976.07.13 – 1981.08.13); later Bishop of Le Mans (France) (1981.08.13 – 1996.08.02), Metropolitan Archbishop of Sens (France) (1996.08.02 – 2002.12.08), also Bishop-Prelate of the Territorial Prelature of Mission de France (France) (1996.08.02 – 2004.12.31), later demoted non-Metropolitan Archbishop of above Sens (2002.12.08 – 2004.12.31)
Johannes Bernardus Niënhaus (1982.01.15 – death 2000.12.05) as Auxiliary Bishop of Utrecht (Netherlands) (1982.01.15 – retired 1999.09.01) and on emeritate
Tomasz Peta (2001.02.15 – 2003.05.17) as first Apostolic Administrator of Astana (Kazakhstan) (1999.07.07 – 2003.05.17); later promoted as that renamed see's first Metropolitan Archbishop of Astana (2003.05.17 – ...), also President of Episcopal Conference of Kazakhstan (2003.05 – ...)
Vasyl Ivasyuk (2003.07.28 – 2014.02.13), as Archiepiscopal Exarch of Odessa–Krym of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) (2003.07.28 – 2014.02.13) and as Patriarchal Administrator of Kolomyia–Chernivtsi of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) (2013.05.22 – 2014.02.13); next Eparch (Bishop) of above Kolomyia–Chernivtsi of the Ukrainians (2014.02.13 – ...)
Wilhelm Zimmermann (2014.03.14 – ...), Auxiliary Bishop of Essen (Germany), no previous prelature
