Attanus was a Roman city and bishopric in Asia Minor and remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
The Ancient city of Attananus, near modern Aydan, was important enough in the Roman provinceofPhrygia Prima to become a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archbishop of its capital Laodicea on the Lycus, but faded.
[1] The diocese was nominally restored as a titular bishopric, no later than 1952, under the names Attanasus (Latin; adjective Attanasen(sis)) / Attanaso (Curiate Italian).
It is vacant since decades, having had only two incumbents, both of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank :
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