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Hierapolis in Isauria






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Hierapolis in Isauria was a city and diocese in ancient Isauria, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see. Its modern site seems unclear.

History[edit]

The city was important enough in the Roman provinceofIsauria (inAsia Minor, now Asian Turkey) to become a suffragan of it capital Seleucia in Isauria's Metropolitan Archbishopric,[1] but it was to fade.

Titular see[edit]

The diocese was nominally restored in 1933.

It is vacant since decades, having had only the following incumbents, both of the lowest (episcopal) rank:[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Joseph Bingham, Origines ecclesiasticæ; or, The antiquities of the Christian church, and other works. To which are now added, several sermons. (Joseph Bingham, 1834)
  • ^ Catholic Hierarchy
  • Source and external links[edit]


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