Linoe
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Linoë is a Roman Catholic titular see
in the former Roman province of Bithynia Secunda.
which mention it as late as the twelfth and thirteenth centuries as a suffragan of the archbishopric of Nicaea. The Byzantine Emperor Justinian must have raised it to the rank of a city.
It is probably the modern Turkish town of Biledjik, a station on the Hnidar-Pasha railway to Konya
. It became an important centre for the cultivation of the silk-worm.
Lequien (Oriens christianus, I, 657) mentions four bishops of Linoe:
Titular see
A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular bishop", "titular metropolitan", or "titular archbishop"....
in the former Roman province of Bithynia Secunda.
History
It is known only from the Notitiae EpiscopatuumNotitiae Episcopatuum
The Notitiae Episcopatuum are official documents that furnish Eastern countries the list and hierarchical rank of the metropolitan and suffragan bishoprics of a church....
which mention it as late as the twelfth and thirteenth centuries as a suffragan of the archbishopric of Nicaea. The Byzantine Emperor Justinian must have raised it to the rank of a city.
It is probably the modern Turkish town of Biledjik, a station on the Hnidar-Pasha railway to Konya
Konya
Konya is a city in the Central Anatolia Region of Turkey. The metropolitan area in the entire Konya Province had a population of 1,036,027 as of 2010, making the city seventh most populous in Turkey.-Etymology:...
. It became an important centre for the cultivation of the silk-worm.
Lequien (Oriens christianus, I, 657) mentions four bishops of Linoe:
- Anastasius, who attended a Council of ConstantinopleQuinisext CouncilThe Quinisext Council was a church council held in 692 at Constantinople under Justinian II. It is often known as the Council in Trullo, because it was held in the same domed hall where the Sixth Ecumenical Council had met...
in 692 - Leo, at the Second Council of Nicea in 787
- Basil and Cyril, the one a partisan of St. Ignatius, the other of Photius, at the Fourth Council of ConstantinopleFourth Council of ConstantinopleThe Fourth Council of Constantinople of 879-880 is believed to have been the Eighth Ecumenical Council by some Eastern Orthodox. Photius had been appointed Patriarch of Constantinople but deposed by a Council of Constantinople called in 869 by Emperor Basil I the Macedonian and Pope Adrian II...
in 879.